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dirtyfishtank
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8 Posts

Posted - 2012-01-12 : 21:43:30

Hey all,

I have a stored procedure which returns a start date and an end date and duration. Is there away to set the duration to be in 'HH:MM:SS' rather than the defualt of 'YYYY:MM:DD HH:MM:SS' using a function like DATEDIFF


startdate,
enddate,
DATEDIFF (HOUR, startdate, enddate) AS duration

dirtyfishtank
Starting Member

8 Posts

Posted - 2012-01-13 : 02:41:26

I found this works quite well

Convert(CHAR(5), DateAdd(min
,  DateDiff(min, start, stop), '00:00:00')
,  108)

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2012-01-13 : 03:22:07

from 2008 onwards you've time datatype so you can even cast to time datatype to get this if version is 2008 or above

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