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

From SQL Server 2014, You can use Format function for this.

for Ex.

 declare @Startdate datetime = '2020-11-07 15:27:50.713'

 set  @Startdate = Convert(datetime,FORMAT(@Startdate, 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm'))


> Result is 
2020-11-07 15:27:00.000