time format in SQL Server

Question

Does anyone know how can I format a select statement datetime value to only display time in SQL Server?

example:

Table cuatomer
id   name   datetime
         


        

Answer 1

You can use a combination of CONVERT, RIGHT and TRIM to get the desired result:

SELECT ltrim(right(convert(varchar(25), getdate(), 100), 7))

The 100 you see in the function specifies the date format mon dd yyyy hh:miAM (or PM), and from there we just grab the right characters.

You can see more about converting datetimes here.