Guys,

I have a Date string. My objective is how to get the Datename.
I got this Receivedate as string when I used the Bulk insert. i make the
receiptdate as nvarchar because i got an error when i used the bulk insert.

Select 
	ItemNumber,
	PurchasePrice,
	ReceivingPO,
    Cast(ReceivedDate as Datetime) as ReceivedMonth
From #VPTable as vp
Where vp.ReceivingPO is not null

Thanks.

JOv

If your Cast is working, then I don't see a problem.

Select 
	ItemNumber,
	PurchasePrice,
	ReceivingPO,
   DATENAME(d,Cast(ReceivedDate as Datetime) as ReceivedMonth) as 'Day' -- Change d to whatever you need.
From #VPTable as vp
Where vp.ReceivingPO is not null

Thanks Adam_K.

Got an ERROR from this script..

Select 
	vp.ItemNumber,
	vp.PurchasePrice,
	vp.ReceivingPO,
    --Cast(vp.ReceivedDate as Datetime) as POMonth,
    DATENAME(Month,Cast(ReceivedDate AS Datetime) AS ReceivedMonth) AS 'POMonth' 
From #VPTable as vp with (nolock)
Msg 156, Level 15, State 1, Line 6
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'AS'.
Msg 319, Level 15, State 1, Line 7
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'with'. If this statement is a common table expression or an xmlnamespaces clause, the previous statement must be terminated with a semicolon.

Try the following?:

SELECT ItemNumber,	
             PurchasePrice,
             ReceivingPO,
             DATENAME(MONTH,CONVERT(DATETIME, ReceivedDate)) AS ReceivedMonth
FROM #VPTable as vp
WHERE vp.ReceivingPO IS NOT NULL
commented: I stand corrected +7

Eagletalon is right. I should have removed the AS ReceivedMonth part.

Hi Adam_K and Eagletalon,


Here is my Data Structure. I got received an error when executing that script
coverting the date string to datetime.

Error:
Msg 241, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Conversion failed when converting datetime from character string.


Create Table #VPTable
(
  ItemNumber nvarchar(255),
  PurchasePrice Varchar(255),
  ReceivingPO nvarchar(50),
  ReceivedDate nvarchar(24),
)

Thank you..

JV

Hi jovillanuev

Error:
Msg 241, Level 16, State 1, Line 2
Conversion failed when converting datetime from character string.

This error is 1 I've had many times over... it means that the string you are using for a date is not in a valid format for SQL to interpret...

Could be something like: "201121 14:35"...

would it be possible to just select the string to see the output? give us an example of what needs to be converted

Here is the string format for ReceivedDate

This is the fields -- ReceivedDate nvarchar(24)

Output  --   '5/28/2011'

It runs perfectly for me?

QUERY:

SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, CONVERT(DATETIME, '5/28/2011')) AS ReceivedMonth

RESULTS:

May

It runs perfectly for me?

QUERY:

SELECT DATENAME(MONTH, CONVERT(DATETIME, '5/28/2011')) AS ReceivedMonth

RESULTS:

May

That's because your regional settings is US or any other that has MM/DD/YYYY.
If I where to run it I would get the same error (I'm Greek = DD/MM/YYYY).


jovillanuev put

SET DATEFORMAT mdy

before the query and run them together. This will tell SQL how to read the date correctly.

That's because your regional settings is US or any other that has MM/DD/YYYY.
If I where to run it I would get the same error (I'm Greek = DD/MM/YYYY).

Wow... there I learned something awesome :D... thnx man... oh and btw I'm from South Africa and I believe the setting fall under UK? :S nevertheless if that solves it then bloody well done, wouldn't have thought of it in years

jovillanuev has the dateformat worked for you?

Thank you very much guys...

Regards,

Jov

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