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Change datetime format to date in SQL
The createtime column is in datetime format.
Only the cast(createtime as date) works for me. The result is in the format of datetime too.
Is that possible to direct convert it to date format without using query M?
What is the datatype for your createTime column in SQL? Is it a Date-Time column or a character based data type (Char/NChar?)
you could try the following
CAST(createTime AS Date)
or
convert(date, createTime, 103)
or
TRY_CAST(createTime AS Date)
The createtime column is in datetime format.
Only the cast(createtime as date) works for me. The result is in the format of datetime too.
Is that possible to direct convert it to date format without using query M?
Date format is DateTime only set to midnight.
That's obvious and is clearly not the question.
You are aware that in M there's a data type Date that removes the Time component completely? So why when in SQL you explicitly CAST DateTime as DATE PowerQuery is not picking it up as Date data type but instead is treating it as DateTime with 00:00:00 in the time part? It looks ugly and is confusing.
