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Hello All,

I have a SQL Server Question. I am not sure which the best way to do it is. Now the requirement:
Every time, a new row(s) is inserted to my table xyz, then there is column in that table, called [update time], that gets the time of update in the format below…

For example – server Table
col1      col2      col3      updateTime
dsas      sdads      sdad      12/04/2012 1.45 PM
dsas      sdads      sdad      12/04/2012 1.50 PM

Is this difficult to accomplish?

Thanks
R

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Question by:Rayne

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by:Rayne

ID: 387358872013-01-02

Also, [updateTime] column has to be of any specific format for achieving this?

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by:Anuj

Anuj earned 200 total points

ID: 387359032013-01-02

Add a default constraint to UpdatedTime, so the default value will get inserted in to the updatedTime column when you did not supply the value for this column in your insert statement.

ALTER TABLE <TableName>
ADD CONSTRAINT DF_UpdatedTime_GetDate DEFAULT GETDATE() FOR UpdatedTime

You can also change the format if your UpdateTime is varchar column
ALTER TABLE <TableName>
ADD CONSTRAINT DF_UpdatedTime_GetDate DEFAULT CONVERT(VARCHAR,GETDATE(),101) FOR UpdatedTime

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by:Rayne

ID: 387360672013-01-02

Perfect Anujnb,

That works but I am getting the date format as below:
Jan 2 2013 2:18AM

is it possible to get it like this?
01/02/2013 2:18AM

Thanks for your help so far :)

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by:RehanYousaf

RehanYousaf earned 100 total points

ID: 387360802013-01-02

For different time formats, you can try the following link: http://www.sql-server-helper.com/tips/date-formats.aspx

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by:Pratima Pharande

Pratima Pharande earned 200 total points

ID: 387360862013-01-02

try this for format as you want

select CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), GETDATE(), 101) + ' ' + RIGHT(CONVERT(VARCHAR, GETDATE(), 100), 7)

Try this when you are retriving the data like

Select col1 , col2 , select CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), UpdateTime , 101) + ' ' + RIGHT(CONVERT(VARCHAR, UpdateTime , 100), 7)

Author Closing Comment

by:Rayne

ID: 387360952013-01-02

Thank you All for your excellent 5 ***** help :)
For your effort.
Greatly appreciate it

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by:Anuj

ID: 387361042013-01-02

If this is a date time column I recommend you to Insert the date time value with default format and while retrieving the values convert to the required format. This method has the advantage that you can do date manipulations to the date time column with out the requirement of any conversion and of-course the performance adv also.

SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR,GETDATE(),101)+' '+ LTRIM(RIGHT(CONVERT(VARCHAR(20), GETDATE(), 100),7))

SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR,UpdateTime(),101)+' '+ LTRIM(RIGHT(CONVERT(VARCHAR(20), UpdateTime, 100),7))
FROM <YourTable>

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by:Rayne

ID: 387361082013-01-02

thank you Anuj :)

Sure I will keep that in mind

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