Comments on: SQL SERVER – Denali – String Function – FORMAT() – A Quick Introduction

By: Ritchie Roy

Ritchie Roy — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 00:03:29 +0000

how do I practice many exercises on SQL Server. I’m new to this. I know the basics but I could not able to learn deeply. If you are aware of any links of SQL exercises please let me know. My mail id is [removed]. Thank you.

By: sudhakar reddy

sudhakar reddy — Sun, 23 Dec 2012 05:42:34 +0000

Thank u for giving nice understanding ur’s material
it is most helpfull, i saw all ur material…….

By: Malcolm

Malcolm — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:12:01 +0000

SELECT FORMAT (GETDATE(), N’dddd MMMM dd, yyyy’) can be replaced with
SELECT FORMAT (CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, ‘D’)
This is quicker/simpler to write, and can be used with the optional culture param.
GETDATE() and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP return the same value – GETDATE() is T-SQL specific, and CURRENT_TIMESTAMP is standard SQL.

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By: Amit Sawant

Amit Sawant — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:58:25 +0000

Thanks a lot. It will prove very helpful to us as we support 10 Locales.

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By: Saint Sam

Saint Sam — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 06:42:36 +0000

Great stuff. Thank you so much for being an answer to the cry of many

By: waqas

waqas — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 12:50:14 +0000

great code here but i try this code in sql server it did not execute.

By: Vijayakumar P

Vijayakumar P — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 05:38:49 +0000

Thanks pinal……. nice post… formatting date for country…

By: Nakul Vachhrajani

Nakul Vachhrajani — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 14:15:05 +0000

Hello, Sri!

I expressed my opinion on the feature in general, and the comment was in no way directed towards you. I am sorry if it appeared that way.

In your case, you plan to use formatting when generating a report – which to me is a representational layer, making it legal to undertake such formatting exercises.

My only concern was, and is, that users might end up storing formatted data – which creates problems down the road.

By: Sri

Sri — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 09:37:06 +0000

Hi Nakulvachhrajani,

I am not sure if your replied to my query or just expressed your view on the article. I am not storing the fomatted data in the database but I would
like to genarate the output column in a report as described above.

I have a table called “persons” where firstname is one column, all I want is to genarate a report with the firstname as one column.
The formatting should be as follows:
when the firstname is like ” Somename A.” then the output should be ” Somename-A”
when the firstname is like ” A. B. Somename” then the output should be “Somename-A-B”

(Any letter with a period after it in the firstname needs to be treated as Middle Initials and will need to be formatted as: Firstname-M)

Thanks in advance,
Sri.

By: nakulvachhrajani

nakulvachhrajani — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 08:02:45 +0000

I guess it’s time to be more careful now. Representation of data should *always* be handled by the UI. The database is a data store – as long as data is stored in one universal format across the database, there is nothing more that the DB should be doing.

It’s easy to get carried away and put all formatting logic in T-SQL code, but it’s like opening a can of worms.

By: Sri

Sri — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 13:19:57 +0000

Hi Pinal,

Could you please helip me in writing a SQL function which formats the input string as follows.

Any letter with a period after it in the firstname needs to be treated as Middle Initials and woill needs to be formatted as: Firstname-M

For ex: Somename A. –> Somename-A
A. B. Somename –> Somename-A-B

Thanks in advance,
Sri

By: pinaldave

pinaldave — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:11:54 +0000

Thank you sir!

I must accept that I missed it, I will fix it immediately.

By: aaronbertrand

aaronbertrand — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:42:26 +0000

Your code for Month should be using upper-case M, not lower-case m. In three of those cases, you are showing the result of minutes, not months.

By: Raghav

Raghav — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 16:56:09 +0000

Wow!

Thats really a great update from Microsoft.

Thanks a lot sir for sharing :)

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By: Gill Bates

Gill Bates — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:13:01 +0000

Since it is. Net based, does using it result in a performance penalty? In Sql2005 at least, calling a simple clr based string function was much slower than built-ins like REPLACE etc

By: Partha Pratim Dinda

Partha Pratim Dinda — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 06:48:21 +0000

Thanks Pinal for sharing the format () It will really helpful to solve many critical issue easily.

Please check the example2 the currency format() image .

Thanks,
Partha