Unable to get Values in HH:mm format from nvarchar data in Sql Server 2005

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Hi Friends,

I am developing a windows application fro which I have developed a form through

which user can upload an excel file data to sql server 2005 Table.

The problem is that the values in Excel File for Gross_TurnTime is in HH:mm format

but when I upload the data to sql server I see the data in numbers i.e 103,569 etc

How can I get the original time format from this data in sql server 2005.

I.e 101 in HH:mm format in Sql server 2005.

Thank you in Advance for your urgent reply,

Regards,
Kishor

Posted 9-Nov-11 1:34am

Kishor_Kadam

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[no name] 9-Nov-11 8:08am

What is data type of the column you are inserting into? How are you inserting it?

Don't ask for an urgent reply. It rude. This is a volunteer site and people will answer on their time not yours

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Richard MacCutchan · Answer 1 · 2011-11-09T02:47:00

Date/Time values in Excel are held as real numbers where the value before the decimal separator is the date and the value after is the time. You need to convert these values to DateTimes and store as such in the database. Don't store them as character strings since you are then forced to display them in only one format which may not match the standard for some parts of the world. See here[^] for a full description.