Translating date strings

Time Series Analysis in SQL Server

Maham Faisal Khan

Senior Data Science Content Developer

Casting strings

SELECT
    CAST('09/14/99' AS DATE) AS USDate;

USDate
1999-09-14

Converting strings

SELECT
    CONVERT(DATETIME2(3),
            'April 4, 2019 11:52:29.998 PM') AS April4

April4
2019-04-04 23:52:29.998

Parsing strings

SELECT
    PARSE('25 Dezember 2014' AS DATE 
          USING 'de-de') AS Weihnachten;

Weihnachten
2014-12-25

The cost of parsing

Function	Conversions Per Second
`CONVERT()`	251,997
`CAST()`	240,347
`PARSE()`	12,620

Setting languages

SET LANGUAGE 'FRENCH'
DECLARE
    @FrenchDate NVARCHAR(30) = N'18 avril 2019',
    @FrenchNumberDate NVARCHAR(30) = N'18/4/2019';

SELECT
    CAST(@FrenchDate AS DATETIME),
    CAST(@FrenchNumberDate  AS DATETIME);

2019-04-18 00:00:00.000

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Time Series Analysis in SQL Server