How to extract Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute and Seconds from a DateTime

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I recently saw a post in the forums where a user wanted to extract the Year, Month, Day, Hour, Minute and Seconds from a DateTime field. Let us see how easily we can do it using the DATEPART() function. The DATEPART function accepts two parameters :

DATEPART ( datepart , date ) where
datepart - specifies the part of the date to return. For eg: year, month and so on
date - is the datetime or smalldatetime value

QUERY

SELECT
DATEPART(year, GETDATE()) as 'Year',
DATEPART(month,GETDATE()) as 'Month',
DATEPART(day,GETDATE()) as 'Day',
DATEPART(week,GETDATE()) as 'Week',
DATEPART(hour,GETDATE()) as 'Hour',
DATEPART(minute,GETDATE()) as 'Minute',
DATEPART(second,GETDATE()) as 'Seconds',
DATEPART(millisecond,GETDATE()) as 'MilliSeconds'

Note: When using a smalldatetime, only information up to the 'minute' gets displayed. Seconds and milliseconds are always 0.

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