Reputation: 305
I want to skip the parsing of date and formatting it. Instead i directly want to fetch the date from database in custom format. Is this possible ?
Upvotes: 0
Views: 1820
Reputation: 120
You need look into the functions provided by the database vendor.
For example, in Oracle we can use the following syntax in the SQL itself
TO_CHAR('date', 'format')
So go thru the documentation database you use.
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 29877
Yes, change your SQL query to format the date. For example, if you use oracle, you need to use the function TO_CHAR(dateColumn, 'YYYY/MM/DD'), and that will return a String column with the date formatted as '2012/09/14'.
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 151
You can set format in your query. (My example is run on sqlserver)
something like..
SELECT CONVERT (VARCHAR, GETDATE(), 103)
for more detail http://www.sqlusa.com/bestpractices2005/centurydateformat/
Upvotes: 0