SQL SERVER – Tips from the SQL Joes 2 Pros Development Series – System and Time Data Types – Day 16 of 35

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System and Time Data Types

Keeping track of date and time data points has always been a critical part of online transactional databases. For example, each sales invoice record needs a date-time stamp, as do systems which track quotes and customer contacts regarding sales opportunities.

Think of how many times during your workday that you rely on a date-time stamp as helpful metadata to sort or locate the latest information in a report or data source. Global organizations, in particular, have a need for their in-house communication, reporting, and collaboration tools to appropriately convey accurate date and time information in order to keep every part of the organization in sync.

Recap of DateTime Functions

GETDATE( ) and SELECT SYSDATETIME( ) both return the current date and time in your time zone. However, GETDATE( ) shows fractional seconds expressed in milliseconds (.333 second), and SYSDATETIME( ) shows fractional seconds expressed in nanoseconds (.3333333 second). SYSDATETIME( ) return similar results but their precisions differ.

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What time is it right now in the UK? UTC is Coordinated Universal Time, formerly known as Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). (UTC is also known by the terms zulu time, world time, and universal time.)

SELECT GETUTCDATE( ) will show the current time expressed in terms of UTC. GETUTCDATE( ) is less precise than SYSUTCDATETIME ( ). However there is a UTC function that gets down to the nanoseconds, SYSUTCDATETIME( ). When we run all 4 of these functions together We see the two top times in my local time zone (in my case the Pacific time zone) and the two bottom times in UTC.

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Question 16

Which one of the following functions will return the date and time in the current time zone to a precision of milliseconds?

  1. GETDATE( )
  2. SYSDATETIME( )
  3. GETUTCDATE( )
  4. SYSUTCDATETIME( )

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  • vishalpatwardhan
    August 16, 2011 12:19 pm

    Correct Answer is Option 1

    Explanation:
    1)GETDATE() returns date time in miliseconds.
    Example:
    SELECT GETDATE()

    Thanks
    Vishal Patwardhan
    Indore(India)

    Reply
  • Azaad Mohammed
    August 16, 2011 12:35 pm

    hello,
    correct answer is option #1 i.e: getdate()

    getdate(): it will return the date and time in the current time zone to a precision of milliseconds
    sysdatetime(): nano seconds

    azaad mohammed
    from mumbai,india

    Reply
  • The correct answer is 1.GetDate()

    Reply
  • Correct Answer: Option 1

    GETDATE() returns date time in miliseconds.
    Romania

    Reply
  • Correct answer is Option #1

    1.GETDATE()

    Pritesh Mehat
    India

    Reply
  • Correct answer is Option #1

    1.GETDATE()

    Pritesh Mehta
    India

    Reply
  • Mandar Alawani
    August 16, 2011 1:16 pm

    Correct Answer:
    1) GETDATE()

    Thanks,
    Mandar
    Mumbai, INDIA

    Reply
  • Correct Answer: GetDate() option 1

    Purna from INDIA

    Reply
  • Diljeet kumari
    August 16, 2011 1:20 pm

    Hi Pinal,

    The answer for the above question is Option 1) GETDATE( ).

    Explanation:

    Asked : Function will return the date and time in the current time zone to a precision of milliseconds.

    Explanation : Here we need to find out Current time zone in the above article it is very beautifully explained by pinal sir that GETDATE() will return current date and time in your time zone by default your time zine is said as default time zone though GETUTCDATE( ) returns the same in milliseconds but here our requirement is current time zone, i.e our zone.

    Apart from that no other option will give us that result.

    Diljeet kumari

    Country : India

    Reply
  • Correct option is #1

    SYSDATETIME() returns current time zone datetime upto nanoseconds which is not required.

    INDIA

    Reply
  • Correct Answer:
    1. GETDATE()

    GETDATE() will return current date and time in current time zone with precision of milliseconds.

    Hiren Bavishi
    India

    Reply
  • Dayanand Singh
    August 16, 2011 2:23 pm

    Correct Answer is Option 1

    Explanation: Option 3 and 4 provide date and time in Universal Time Coordinates (UTC) and option 2 provide date and time in current time zone but with precision of nanoseconds.
    Option 1 provide date and time in current time zone to a precision of milliseconds.

    Country – INDIA (Gujarat)

    Reply
  • Option 1 is correct

    Mangesh From India

    Reply
  • Option 2. SYSDATETIME( ), will return the date and time in the current time zone to a precision of milliseconds.

    (Sale, Nigeria)

    Reply
  • sapnesh kayastha
    August 16, 2011 3:31 pm

    Option 1 is correct
    Country : India

    Reply
  • option #1 GETDATE( ) is correct as it the date and time in the current time zone to a precision of milliseconds

    Reply
  • Question No:16
    Answer : GETDATE() — Option 1

    Shalini Meyyappan
    Chennai India.

    Reply
  • Shekhar Gurav.
    August 16, 2011 5:02 pm

    Correct Answer is option No : 1 ) GETDATE( )

    GETDATE( ) returns current time zone details with milliseconds precision.

    Shekhar Gurav
    Country : INDIA

    Reply
  • Deepali Bhende
    August 16, 2011 5:10 pm

    The correct answer is option 1 :
    1. GETDATE( )
    It shows fractional seconds expressed in milliseconds.

    Deepali Bhende.
    Country : INDIA

    Reply
  • Rajesh Mohanrangan
    August 16, 2011 5:18 pm

    Correct Option is 1

    GETDATE() which gives date and time and the precision to milliseconds.

    Regards
    Rajesh

    From India

    Reply

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