A way to extract from a DateTime value data without seconds

Question

I have an sql DateTime (ms sql server) and want to extract the same date without the seconds: e.g. 2011-11-22 12:14:58.000 to become: 2011-11

Answer 1

SELECT DATEADD(MINUTE, DATEDIFF(MINUTE, 0, yourcolumn), 0) FROM yourtable

This will be effective, if you don't want a slow conversion between datatypes.