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Convert TimeStamp

Banging my head on this and it is probably simple....

What is the cleanest way to get today's timestamp in a character string
of 14 without seperators YYYYMMDDHHMMSS?

Ie : 2006-02-28-10.53.37.230256
as
20060228105337

I know I can use SUBSTR but seems like a cludge...

Chris

Feb 28 '06 #1
3 11251
Instead of SUBSTR you could use YEAR(), MONTH(), etc...

Or: REPLACE(TRANSLATE(CHAR(CURRENT TIMESTAMP), '', '.-'), ' ', '')

B.

Feb 28 '06 #2
Hmm, didn't work for me. Errored on TRANSLATE. Maybe I messed up the
quotes. However, you did give me an Idea. Hence, this works:

Substr(
REPLACE(REPLACE( CHAR(CURRENT TIMESTAMP), '-', ''), '.','')
,1,14)

Chris

Feb 28 '06 #3
Ian
Chris wrote:
Banging my head on this and it is probably simple....

What is the cleanest way to get today's timestamp in a character string
of 14 without seperators YYYYMMDDHHMMSS?

Ie : 2006-02-28-10.53.37.230256
as
20060228105337


cast(bigint(your_timestamp) as char(14))
Mar 9 '06 #4

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