MemoSoup » timestamp http://www.memosoup.com Mix of the things I always forget Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:59:38 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Converting timestamp to char http://www.memosoup.com/20090912/converting-timestamp-to-char.html http://www.memosoup.com/20090912/converting-timestamp-to-char.html#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2009 15:39:57 +0000 admin http://www.memosoup.com/?p=53 Sometimes it’s necessary to convert Sybase timestamp to something more readable Warning! Timestamp is not date type!

declare @p timestamp declare @s varchar(16) declare @t1, @t2 varbinary(4) //--- from char to timestamp @t1 = hextoint(substring(lower(@s),1,8)) @t2 = hextoint(substring(lower(@s),9,8)) @p = @t1 + @t2 //--- from timestamp to [...]]]> Sometimes it’s necessary to convert Sybase timestamp to something more readable
Warning! Timestamp is not date type!

declare @p timestamp
declare @s varchar(16)
declare @t1, @t2 varbinary(4)
//--- from char to timestamp
@t1 = hextoint(substring(lower(@s),1,8))
@t2 = hextoint(substring(lower(@s),9,8))
@p = @t1 + @t2
//--- from timestamp to char
@s=(lower(convert(varchar(8),intohex(substring(p,1,4))))+ lower(convert(varchar(8),intohex(substring(p,5,4))))
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