Nov 14, 2011 · Yes there are date time specific data types for most SQL database implementations. Exact syntax depends on the RDMS vendor, but here are some examples for the very popular Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle (previously Sun) MySQL. SQL Date Functions; MySQL comes with the following data types for storing a date or …

But I don't know what should I use for type column im phpmyadmin. It should be noted that NOW() returns both time and date like this: 2014-11-11 12:45:34 Here is a solution, I can use of a separator for separating date and time (2014-11-11 and 12:45:34) and then store them in the DATE type and TIME type individually. Or I can use of VARCHAR ...

Sep 22, 2008 · The datetime data type cannot have no time at all. I think you are confusing data storage with user presentation. I think you are confusing data storage with user presentation. If all you want is a way to show a user a string that has no time portion (not zeroes, just blanks) then you simply want Convert(varchar(30), @Date, 101) or something ...

Dec 8, 2011 · Sure you can convert this - but to do so, the visual designer in SQL Server Mgmt Studio will create your new table with DATETIME, copy over the data, and then drop the old table, and there's an option in Tools > Options that prevents that by default - see my response –

Dec 30, 2013 · "The conversion of a varchar data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value". The problem was the default language of the db user. To check or change it in SSMS go to Security -> Logins and right-click the username of the user that runs the queries.

Aug 26, 2009 · Just so we're clear here the datetime and datetime2 data types were both introduced in SQL Server 2008. You also get Operand type clash: date is incompatible with int from the date type which has been around since day dot. All three data types work just fine with dateadd(dd, 1, ...) though. –

Datetime is a datatype. Timestamp is a method for row versioning. In fact, in sql server 2008 this column type was renamed (i.e. timestamp is deprecated) to rowversion. It basically means that every time a row is changed, this value is increased. This is done with a database counter which automatically increase for every inserted or updated row.

Jun 18, 2012 · This is the only one that works for my (shared) SQL server. YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss gives the correct mnth/date; but without the 'T' (YYYY-MM-DD hh:mm:ss) the month and date are swapped (sometimes of course giving impossible values), Without the hyphens (YYYDDMM hh:mm:ss) also seems to work but I can't trust it, because it depends on the DB admin's language settings which may change.

SQL Server can implicitly cast strings in the form of YYYYMMDD to a datetime - all other strings must be explicitly cast. Here are two quick code blocks which will do the conversion from the form you are talking about ( MMDDYYYY ).

Jan 30, 2013 · As has been said, datetime has no format/string representational format. You can change the string output with some formatting. To convert your string to a datetime: declare @date nvarchar(25) set @date = '2011-09-28 18:01:00' -- To datetime datatype SELECT CONVERT(datetime, @date) Gives: