How to convert a datetime to string in T-SQL

Question

I\'m surprised not to be able to find this question here already.

I have a date time var and I want to convert it to a string so that I can append it to another stri

Answer 1

The following query will get the current datetime and convert into string. with the following format
yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss(24h)

SELECT convert(varchar(25), getdate(), 120) 

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