How to select date without time in SQL

Question

When I select date in SQL it is returned as 2011-02-25 21:17:33.933. But I need only the Date part, that is 2011-02-25. How can I do this?

Answer 1

I guess he wants a string.

select convert(varchar(10), '2011-02-25 21:17:33.933', 120)

120 here tells the convert function that we pass the input date in the following format: yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss.

Answer 2

Convert it back to datetime after converting to date in order to keep same datatime if needed

select Convert(datetime, Convert(date, getdate())  )

Answer 3

For 2008 older version :

SELECT DATEADD(DAY, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, GETDATE()), 0)

Answer 4

You can try this one too.

SELECT CONVERT(DATE, GETDATE(), 120)

Answer 5

Try this.

SELECT DATEADD(DD, 0, DATEDIFF(DD, 0, GETDATE()))

Answer 6

First Convert the date to float (which displays the numeric), then ROUND the numeric to 0 decimal points, then convert that to datetime.

convert(datetime,round(convert(float,orderdate,101),0) ,101)