When extracting timed statistics from SQL you usually want these stats grouped by some kind of time and more often than not this time unit is days. I used to do this unnecessarily complicated by converting the dates to varchars in formats I didn’t even want and maybe even use datepart(day, datetime) if the data spanned within a month. Then the good man Sören Helenelund told me about casting to date. Neat and gives me exactly what I want:
SELECT cast(getdate() as date)It will output the today’s date in my localized format 2013-05-30 and can be used to group things or whatever. Wonderful and easy to remember. Thanks Sören!