Convert a SQL Server datetime to a shorter date format

Question

I have a datetime column in SQL Server that gives me data like this 10/27/2010 12:57:49 pm and I want to query this column but just have SQL Server ret

Answer 1

With SQL Server 2005, I would use this:

select replace(convert(char(10),getdate(),102),'.',' ')

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