SQL Server GROUP BY datetime ignore hour minute and a select with a date and sum value

Question

I have a table with two fields - datetime and int. I want to do a group by on the datetime only on the date ignoring the hour and minute.

Answer 1

As he didn't specify which version of SQL server he uses (date type isn't available in 2005), one could also use

SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),date_column,112),SUM(num_col) AS summed
FROM table_name
GROUP BY CONVERT(VARCHAR(10),date_column,112)