Date without the time

Question

I\'m working with SQL Server 2005.

I have a column called purchase_time of type datetime. How do I select this column with the time part - just the date.

Tha

Answer 1

In SQL Server 2008 you can use the newly added date type:

select convert(date, purchase_time) from TableName

Update:

In versions prior to SQL 2008, I used the following solution for this problem:

select convert(datetime, convert(int, convert(float, purchase_time)))
from TableName