Comments on: Refactor This: Runaway T-SQL to Print YYMMDD

By: Dia Killean

Dia Killean — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:26:40 +0000

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By: Jason Strate

Jason Strate — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:17:29 +0000

Mother of gawd that is terrible. CONVERT is the way to go.

By: bonskijr

bonskijr — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:01:07 +0000

1.) Dev doesn’t know(or read) BOL is the ultimate reference
2.) He/she was a xbase developer

By: Michael J Swart

Michael J Swart — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:02:03 +0000

Wow, that example was so ugly.
Although I think it’s time for a converter from date to a custom date string as in this connect issue:
https://connect.microsoft.com/SQLServer/feedback/details/530045

By: zmo

zmo — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:09:40 +0000

I would prefer
SET @dt = RIGHT(CONVERT(varchar(4), YEAR(getdate())),2)
+ RIGHT(’0′ +CONVERT(varchar(2), MONTH(getdate())),2)
+ RIGHT(’0′ +CONVERT(varchar(2), DAY(getdate())),2)