Convert a SQL Server datetime to a shorter date format

Question

I have a datetime column in SQL Server that gives me data like this 10/27/2010 12:57:49 pm and I want to query this column but just have SQL Server ret

Answer 1

Just add date keyword. E.g. select date(orderdate),count(1) from orders where orderdate > '2014-10-01' group by date(orderdate);

orderdate is in date time. This query will show the orders for that date rather than datetime.

Date keyword applied on a datetime column will change it to short date.