Omitting the Milliseconds in a Date

Question

When I select from SQL Server, I want to get a date, but omit the millisecond value, and I want it to be as a date type. So if I have a value 1/1/2009 1:23:11.923

Answer 1

try this

 declare @DATE datetime
 select @DATE = '1/1/2009 1:23:11.923'



 SELECT convert(datetime,CONVERT(char(35),@DATE,120))

or with date functions only

DECLARE @DATE DATETIME
SELECT @DATE = '1/1/2009 1:23:11.923'

SELECT DATEADD(SECOND, DATEDIFF(SECOND, 39000, @DATE), 39000)