Comments on: SQL SERVER – Difference Between GETDATE and SYSDATETIME

By: rahul sahay (@rahulsahay123)

rahul sahay (@rahulsahay123) — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 05:53:43 +0000

Thanks pinal…..was totally unaware of sysdatetime…..

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 13:05:27 +0000

If you want to show formatted dates in front end application, do the formation there

By: Sagar

Sagar — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:30:36 +0000

Thanks Pinal…
Your blog is very useful…..

By: Veerabhadrarao Samudrala

Veerabhadrarao Samudrala — Mon, 28 Jan 2013 06:47:55 +0000

Hi , i want date as
jan twenty eighth 2001 in ms sql.

By: deepa

deepa — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 09:32:06 +0000

Wonderful article..

By: Maxkub99

Maxkub99 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 04:43:02 +0000

Thanks

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By: kipb7

kipb7 — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:40:07 +0000

Didn’t know… Thanks! Any idea why the time from getdate() and sysdatetime() are so different? SQL 2008 they often differ by .010 seconds, see this example:
PRINT DATEDIFF(ms,GETDATE(),SYSDATETIME())
WAITFOR DELAY ’00:00:00.01′
go 50

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:39:42 +0000

Thanks Pinal. Really its good.

By: Manesh Joseph

Manesh Joseph — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 19:11:28 +0000

I was also not aware of this. While trying this function, I came across another function called SYSDATETIMEOFFSET in which the your time zone offset is also included.

select SYSDATETIMEOFFSET()

Result : 2012-08-07 15:06:55.4932851 -04:00

By: kirti panchal

kirti panchal — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:01:17 +0000

I really don’t know this. thanks a lot and also this sites help me a lot when i am in difficult situation.

Thanks

By: Brij Sharma

Brij Sharma — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 05:38:38 +0000

I just ran into a problem where I got this exception
“The conversion of a datetime2 data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value”
So I looked at you description of datetime2 and datetime and came here to see the real diffrence.

Thanks.

By: Priyank sheth

Priyank sheth — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 15:01:24 +0000

You can use these functions when you generate time related reports like employee working hour report or for logs….

By: Molly

Molly — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:45:39 +0000

Thank for your post
I’m searching the right function for setting datetime2 and your post give me the answere.

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Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:32:13 +0000

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By: Mandar Pandit

Mandar Pandit — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 06:42:56 +0000

Thanks for Sharing Sir….Gr8….!

By: Srinivas Kadiyala

Srinivas Kadiyala — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 18:10:27 +0000

NO..I DONT KNOW…
THANKS FOR SHARING SIR…
-SKC

By: Arunkarthik Viswanath

Arunkarthik Viswanath — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:23:13 +0000

No dint know.. :( TFS..

By: Varinder Sandhu

Varinder Sandhu — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 06:16:28 +0000

No i didn’t know this, thanks for sharing …

Please refer this

http://wiki.evident.nl/Default.aspx?Page=SYSDATETIME%20versus%20GETDATE&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1

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Tue, 19 Jul 2011 01:30:35 +0000

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By: New

New — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 08:45:53 +0000

Nice. New to the SSMS 2008. Thanks

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 15:53:40 +0000

The company I work for has updated to SS2008 but still wants to use SSMS 2005. Access 2003 and Excel 2003 is involved also. Datetime2 is the main issue

Acces and Excel convert the dates to text. and using native 2005 T-sql I have to convert the date to text to extract it. There are hundreds of reports that are affected. Fortunately 2008 this is still running in test.

Woud upgraning to Access and Excel 2010 and SSMS 2008 allow reading of the datetime2 field as a date?

I don’t want to get into a power struggle and try to force them to change all the datetime2 fields to datetime. We don’t nor do we intend to use anything less than 1/100 of a second.

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By: Kuldip Dilip Deshmukh

Kuldip Dilip Deshmukh — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:03:12 +0000

Hi Pinal,
Thanks. Even i dont know the SYSDATETIME function in SQL.
Can you tell us more about the unknown SQL functions.

By: Sumit Thapar

Sumit Thapar — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 07:51:23 +0000

Hi pinal,
Thanks for the article…truly speaking even i never knew about this.