How to get date in 'dd/mon/yyyy' format from SQL Server

Question

I want to get date in dd/mon/yyyy format ie 28/apr/2015

select Birth_DATE 
from dbo.customer

where Birth_DATE is of datetime type. I have looked at all inbuilt convert types but nothing helped for me.

Answer 1

use CONVERT with style 106 and REPLACE the space like this.

SELECT REPLACE(CONVERT(VARCHAR(30),GETDATE(),106),' ','/')

Your query would be

select REPLACE(CONVERT(VARCHAR(30),Birth_DATE,106),' ','/') from dbo.customer

Answer 2

In General:

select cast(day(getdate()) as varchar(2))+'/'+ left(datename(mm,getdate()),3)+'/'+cast(year(getdate()) as varchar(4))

Your Code:

select cast(day(Birth_DATE) as varchar(2))+'/'+ left(datename(mm,Birth_DATE),3)+'/'+cast(year(Birth_DATE) as varchar(4)) from dbo.Customer

Answer 3

Syntax: CONVERT(data_type(length),expression,style)

• data_type(length) : Specifies the target data type (with an optional length)
• expression : Specifies the value to be converted
• style : Specifies the output format for the date/time

For your format: CONVERT(VARCHAR(11),GETDATE(),106)