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btw if this is on SQL 2012 you have available the new FORMAT() function<br />
SELECTFORMAT(YourDateColum<wbr />n, 'mm/dd/yyyy')
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btw if this is on SQL 2012 you have available the new FORMAT() function
SELECTFORMAT(YourDateColumn, 'mm/dd/yyyy')

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Thanks for the grade. &nbsp;Good luck with your project. &nbsp;-Jim
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Thanks for the grade.  Good luck with your project.  -Jim

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I have an excel spreadsheet with a column formatted in mm/dd/yy format.<br />
I set up a connection to pull this date in from a view in a SQL server database. &nbsp;However, when it pulls in, it appears in the format yyyy-mm-dd. &nbsp;It ignores the formatting of the spreadsheet. &nbsp; If I adjust the view to using a CAST function to format the date the way I want, it works. &nbsp;But I was wondering if there was any other way this can work without using CAST?<br />
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In the original table, the field where date is being pulled from is of datatype 'date'. &nbsp;<br />
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Thanks
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I have an excel spreadsheet with a column formatted in mm/dd/yy format.
I set up a connection to pull this date in from a view in a SQL server database.  However, when it pulls in, it appears in the format yyyy-mm-dd.  It ignores the formatting of the spreadsheet.   If I adjust the view to using a CAST function to format the date the way I want, it works.  But I was wondering if there was any other way this can work without using CAST?

In the original table, the field where date is being pulled from is of datatype 'date'.  

Thanks

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