There are many instances when dates and times don't show up at your doorstep in the format you'd like it to be, nor does the output of a query fit the needs of the people viewing it. One option is to format the data in the application itself. Another option is to use the built-in functions SQL Server provides to format the date string for you.
In this video, we showed the usage of SQL CONVERT function for converting date and time from yyyy/MM/dd to dd/MM/yyyy.
how to convert sql date format?
you can change sql date to any custom format easily,
sql date conversion syntax:
-- CAST Syntax:
CAST ( expression AS data_type [ ( length ) ] )
-- CONVERT Syntax:
CONVERT ( data_type [ ( length ) ] , expression [ , style ] )
Arguments
expression
Any valid expression.
data_type
The target data type. This includes xml, bigint, and sql_variant. Alias data types cannot be used.
length
An optional integer that specifies the length of the target data type, for data types that allow a user specified length. The default value is 30.
style
An integer expression that specifies how the CONVERT function will translate expression. For a style value of NULL, NULL is returned. data_type determines the range.
Return types
Returns expression, translated to data_type.
Microsoft link for styles and formats:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/...
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