joe
joe

Reputation: 1473

Convert date to NULL in SQL SEVER

I am interested in converting the dates to null in SQL server. Here is my simple query:

SELECT 
ENTERED_DATE as DATE
ENTERED_DATE as NEXT_DATE
FROM SOMETABLE

DATE                          NEXT_DATE
12/1/2010 12:30:00 AM         12/1/2010 12:30:00 AM
12/1/2010 4:00:00 AM           12/1/2010 4:00:00 AM
12/1/2010 9:00:00 AM           12/1/2010 9:00:00 AM

I would like my result something like this:

 DATE                          NEXT_DATE
 12/1/2010 12:30:00 AM         (null)
 12/1/2010 4:00:00 AM         (null)
 12/1/2010 9:00:00 AM         (null)

How can I do this?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 4337

Answers (3)

Cade Roux
Cade Roux

Reputation: 89661

How about:

SELECT 
ENTERED_DATE as DATE
CONVERT(datetime, NULL) as NEXT_DATE
FROM SOMETABLE

Upvotes: 4

Lamak
Lamak

Reputation: 70638

SELECT ENTERED_DATE as DATE, CAST(NULL AS DATETIME) as NEXT_DATE 
FROM SOMETABLE

Upvotes: 3

Brian Ball
Brian Ball

Reputation: 12596

Not sure if I completely understand the question, can you do this?

SELECT ENTERED_DATE as DATE, NULL as NEXT_DATE FROM SOMETABLE

Upvotes: 0

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