How can I convert datetime to date, truncating the times, leaving me the dates?

Question

I have a field that\'s in datetime format when date would be better and more consistent with the rest of the database, so I want to convert. The time part is all 00:00:00 an

Answer 1

Cast it as a DATE:

select DATE(my_date_time)

That will truncate the time from it, leaving only the date part.