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M O J O

Hi,

How do I store only the time part in a sql server datetime field?

I've tried using ....

Params.Add("@MyField", SqlDbType.DateTime, DateTime.Parse("00:05:00"))

.... but it stores this value "01-09-2004 00:05:00".

I want to store "00:05:00".

Any idea???

Thanks!!!

M O J O

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Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) - MVP (VIP)

Currently, there is no way to do it in this type of field. Even if you set
everything to 0 plus time, you will have a date portion.

In SQL 2005, you can create a UDT, but in SQL 2000, you are pretty much
stuck with setting up a character data type for the time portion only.
Eventually, you MAY have a time data type, but it is not going to be in the
initial 2005 release (for understandable reasons, BTW).

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M O J O

Hi Grogory,

I'm doing this already today, but with Delphi. Now I'm using VB.Net and want
to do the same.

I'm using a DateTime field in MS SQL 2000, and by using Delphi's Frac method
(eg. Frac(SomeDateTimeVar)), it is stored in SQL server only showing the
time (when running a query).

I'm not looking for a Time field in SQL, I only want to store the Time in a
datetime.

M O J O

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Kevin Yu [MSFT] (VIP)

Hi MOJO,

It seems that there is no Time field in SQL server. Could we just save
DateTime in SQL server and only use Time and ignore the Date value?

Kevin Yu
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