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

Try below :

DECLARE @myDateTime DATETIME
SET @myDateTime = '2013-02-02'

-- Convert to string now
SELECT LEFT(CONVERT(VARCHAR, @myDateTime, 120), 10)