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Software ==>	SQL (203 exercises)
Topic ==>	Calculations using dates (7 exercises)
Level ==>	Relatively easy
Subject ==>	SQL training

Combine the YEAR, CONVERT and FORMAT functions to show events in your year of birth

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Before you can do this exercise, you'll need to download and unzip this file . Once you've done this:

Go into SQL Server Management Studio;
Open the SQL file you've just unzipped (you can press CTRL + O to do this); then
Execute this script.

This will generate the database that you'll need to use in order to do this exercise (note that the database and script are only to be used for exercises published on this website, and may not be reused or distributed in any form without the prior written permission of Wise Owl).

First create a query showing events which took place in your year of birth, neatly formatted.

Rather than showing events between the 1st January and 31st December in the year in question, it's easier just to show events where the year function returns the right number.

This should give you something like this:

These are the events for 1978, the second-best year to be born in.

Amend your query so that it shows the event date neatly formatted:

Once using the FORMAT function; and
Once using the CONVERT function.

Here's what the final results should look like (don't forget, your events will be different):

You could of course cheat, and do the last two columns using the same expression ...

Save this query as The Great Owl sees all, and close it down.

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From:	Yash2211
When:	20 Sep 23 at 17:18

select Eventname, eventdate as NotFormated,
format(eventdate,'dd/MM/yyyy') as UsingFormat,
convert(varchar,EventDate, 103)
from tblEvent
where year(eventdate) = '1995'

From:	Yash2211
When:	20 Sep 23 at 17:10

select Eventname, eventdate as NotFormated,
format(eventdate,'dd/MM/yyyy') as UsingFormat,
convert(varchar,EventDate, 103)
from tblEvent

From:	Chinmaykumar
When:	02 Jul 23 at 14:42

Query_Sol. for MySQL users

SELECT EventName, EventDate AS NotFormatted,
DATE_FORMAT(EventDate,"%d/%m/%Y") AS UsingFormat,
CONVERT(DATE_FORMAT(EventDate,"%d/%m/%Y"),CHAR) AS UsingConvert
FROM tblevent
WHERE YEAR(EventDate) = 1996;

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