week that day is ? I've looked in help with no luck. I know in excel
for example you can create custom format for a date to 'dddd' and it
displays the Monday, Tuesday etc... Even it the Day number was
returned i.e if Monday = 1 then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 instead of day
names.
PhilippaSELECT DATENAME(DW,datetimecol)
FROM Sometable
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"Philippa" <philippa.speirs@.systemc.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a conversion for a date field in SQL to show the day of the
> week that day is ? I've looked in help with no luck. I know in excel
> for example you can create custom format for a date to 'dddd' and it
> displays the Monday, Tuesday etc... Even it the Day number was
> returned i.e if Monday = 1 then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 instead of day
> names.
> Philippa|||Thank you, this works like a dream
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> SELECT DATENAME(DW,datetimecol)
> FROM Sometable
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> David Portas
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> Please reply only to the newsgroup
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> "Philippa" <philippa.speirs@.systemc.com> wrote in message
> news:9cf39c04.0310220056.18af3e8c@.posting.google.c om...
> > Is there a conversion for a date field in SQL to show the day of the
> > week that day is ? I've looked in help with no luck. I know in excel
> > for example you can create custom format for a date to 'dddd' and it
> > displays the Monday, Tuesday etc... Even it the Day number was
> > returned i.e if Monday = 1 then 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 instead of day
> > names.
> > Philippa
