Rounding a datetime value down to the nearest half hour

Question

I have a requirement to round a datetime2 value down to the nearest half hour. For example \'10/17/2013 12:10:00.123\' would round down to \'10/17/2013 12:00:00.0\' And \'10

Answer 1

How about this

declare @d datetime = '2013-05-06 12:29.123'
select 
case 
    when datepart(minute, @d) < 30 then cast(dateadd(minute, -datepart(minute,@d)-datepart(second,@d), @d) as smalldatetime)
    when datepart(minute, @d) >= 30 then cast(dateadd(minute, -datepart(minute,@d)-datepart(second,@d)+30, @d) as smalldatetime)
end