Comments on: SQL Server Cast

By: Deb

Deb — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:41:39 +0000

Is the word to be used really ‘append’? “you need to append the number comprising the date into a string.” Is it really a ‘padding’ of the number 0?

Robert — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:14:13 +0000

Agree! If you use left and it’s i.e day 23 you will get ’02′ with left method.

Bhaskar — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:17:01 +0000

Looks like it should be right instead of left

Anonymous — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 05:56:36 +0000

Any date with double digit month and/or day is incorrect with this method (0 + left(x,2) will always start with 0)

Derek Dieter — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 16:21:59 +0000

Hi, You can find that answer here:

SELECT CONVERT(varchar(12),GETDATE(), 112) — 20090629