SQL Server: Transfer YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS to mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss

Question

My SQL Server system is 2016.

As topic, I want to convert YYYYMMDD-HHMMSS to mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss, and use dynamic SQL to fulfill this.

My da

Answer 1

This should get the format you want... but there are probably better ways.

select 
  convert(varchar(16),convert(date,left(ID,8)),101) + 
  ' ' + 
  substring(substring(ID,10,6),1,2) + 
  ':' + 
  substring(substring(ID,10,6),3,2) + 
  ':' + substring(substring(ID,10,6),5,2)