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

There are many different ways to convert a datetime to a string. Here is one way:

SELECT convert(varchar(25), getdate(), 121)  – yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.mmm

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Here is a website that has a list of all of the conversions:

How to Format datetime & date in SQL Server