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

With a little fiddling around, this seems to work well:

SELECT CAST(CONVERT(CHAR(17), bl.[time],113) AS varchar(17))

Result given: 2011-11-22 12:14

The exact way I'm using it in my query as part of the selection list :

,CAST(CONVERT(CHAR(17), bl.[time],113) AS varchar(17))
+ '    (UTC +0)' AS [TIME]

Gives me the result: 15 Dec 2017 06:43 (UTC +0)