How to insert time in MS SQL DB

hi..

i want to store value of time in the database i.e. the 'time in' and 'time out' value for a particular entry of an employee. i have take datetime as a datatype in MS SQL 2000 database and my language is vb.net. How can i store time value in my database?

There is no datatype strictly for the time. I suggest storing the entire date and time value. What if your employee clocks in at 7:00 PM and clocks out at 3:00 AM?|||You told me write to store time in datetime data type along with date. But in what format should I enter the values if I want to store the values in 24 hrs. time format?|||Well, I didn't tell you to store the data in a datetime data type, but I did suggest it. You can see from thedatetime and smalldatetime documentation that SQL Server stores the data in two 4-byte integers, the first 4 bytes store the offset from the base date (January 1, 1900). The other 4 bytes store the number of milliseconds after midnight.

You might use something like this to set a date/time as a parameter value:

myCommand.Parameters.Add("@.DateTimeIn", SqlDbType.DateTime).Value = DateTime.Parse("2006-03-04 23:01:00")

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Datetime values by their nature do not have a "format". It's when you convert the datetime to a string that the string has a "format". (format is quoted because, yes, of course datetime has a format, as tmorton pointed out, but it's not what most people mean)

Just to point this out further, in tmorton's MyCommand.Parameters.Add statement above, you are giving the .value a datetime object. Datetime.Parse("some string"), takes the string in a format that datetime can covert to a valid datetime object, based on your current culture's standard date and time formats. The format tmorton chose (YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:DD.SSS) is the one least likely to give any problems because it is universally available in all cultures, unlike say MM/DD/YYYY which is available in en-US, or (guessing) DD/MM/YYYY in en-GB, or DD.MM.YYYY in fr-FR (Sorry if these aren't the correct formats for England and/or France).

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Hi..

I got my problem soluation but a small problem still remailns.

I am displaying my records in datagrid with code as...

<asp:Label ID="timeinlbl" Width = 30 Runat = server text='<%#DataBinder.Eval(Container,"DataItem.timein","{0:hh:mm}")%>'>

It shows me time in '08:30' format. I want to also display am/pm format. What should I add to display the format 'am/pm'?

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geek.net wrote:

What should I add to display the format 'am/pm'?

Starting from here:BoundColumn.DataFormatString Property, I followed the link to:Formatting Overview. From there I followed the link to:Date and Time Format Strings, and then followed the final link to:Custom DateTime Format Strings. This page should help you discover the exact format string you need.

How to implement remote Data Entry then upload to corp. database?

I'm looking for different solution people have implemented to solve this
problem.
Problem: People need to work remotely. While working remotely they want to
gather information. This information might be survey info, or inspection
info, etc. This information is to be stored remotely on a handheld, or
laptop device. After they get back to the office/homeo office they want to
upload the information to our corporate database, which is SQL Server 2000.
This upload process should be very easy, like a like of a button, or done
automatically when the devices is docked into the corporate network. This
solution has to be supported over the Internet, and intranet.
What I'm looking for is what technologies and processes have people put in
places to implement a solution to handle the problem I stated above.
If you have more questions about what I am asking for please let me know.Greg Larsen wrote:
> I'm looking for different solution people have implemented to solve this
> problem.
> Problem: People need to work remotely. While working remotely they want t
o
> gather information. This information might be survey info, or inspection
> info, etc. This information is to be stored remotely on a handheld, or
> laptop device. After they get back to the office/homeo office they want t
o
> upload the information to our corporate database, which is SQL Server 2000
.
> This upload process should be very easy, like a like of a button, or done
> automatically when the devices is docked into the corporate network. This
> solution has to be supported over the Internet, and intranet.
> What I'm looking for is what technologies and processes have people put in
> places to implement a solution to handle the problem I stated above.
> If you have more questions about what I am asking for please let me know.
This is all supported through Merge Replication. Take a look at the
replication topics in Books Online.
David Portas, SQL Server MVP
Whenever possible please post enough code to reproduce your problem.
Including CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements usually helps.
State what version of SQL Server you are using and specify the content
of any error messages.
SQL Server Books Online:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/ms130214(en-US,SQL.90).aspx
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