How to store date in dd-mon-yyyy format in SQL Server?

Question

The below works for displaying the date, but when writing to the database [in a datetime column] it seems to be getting converted to the default format.

REPLACE(         


        

Answer 1

Date/time values in the database are stored in a binary format. They are not stored as strings. This is the right way to store them.

If you want to fetch the data in a particular format, then use the formula when you retrieve them. Or, you can add a computed column:

alter table t
    add date_field_ddmonyyyy as (REPLACE(CONVERT(VARCHAR(11), CONVERT(DATETIME,DATE_FIELD), 106), ' ', '-'));