What I need is to be mm/dd/yyyy. Is there a way to change the default setting in Sql Server to that particular format instead of yyyy-mm-dd. Because I think C# is using mm-dd-yyyy as a default. In the asp net datagrid all I'm doing it just binding the dataset to the grid and I get that error? Thanks for your reply...|||you should do the formatting at the front end...for instance when you bind the result set to the datagrid...you can use the dataformatstring property of the datagrid columns to format it to mm/dd/yyyy format which is much simpler rather than enforcing the sql server to some other format..
hth|||Yah, I used that format and that is not the problem. The problem is that I can't even bind the dataset to the datagrid. Its in the binding that is causing the error. But thanks anyway.|||What is the code that you are using??|||basically I just call pass parameters to a method and it returns a dataset
datagrid.DataSource = ds;
datagrid.DataBind();
public DataSet GetOriginationReport( DateTime dtStartDate, DateTime dtEndDate)
{
// instantiate connection and command objects
SqlConnection myConnection = new SqlConnection(ConfigurationSettings.AppSettings["connString2"]);
SqlDataAdapter myCommand = new SqlDataAdapter("rptSelectReport", myConnection);
myCommand.SelectCommand.CommandType = CommandType.StoredProcedure;
myCommand.SelectCommand.Parameters.Add("@.pStartDate", SqlDbType.DateTime );
myCommand.SelectCommand.Parameters.Add("@.pEndDate", SqlDbType.DateTime );
myCommand.SelectCommand.Parameters["@.pStartDate"].Value = dtStartDate;
myCommand.SelectCommand.Parameters["@.pEndDate"].Value = dtEndDate;
DataSet myDS = new DataSet();
myCommand.Fill(myDS,"viewReportPipe");
return myDS;
}
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Stored Procedure
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CREATE PROCEDURE rptSelectReport
(
@.pStartDate DateTime,
@.pEndDate DateTime,
)
As
Select * from viewReportPipe Where AppDate Between @.pStartDate And @.pEndDate|||What result do u get when u run this query in Sql analyzer??
Select * from viewReportPipe Where AppDate Between @.pStartDate And @.pEndDate|||well I get a list of results. The problem is occuring in the binding. When I run the query and bind it to a datagrid it works. But I have sorting enable in the datagrid and when I run that same query and bind it to the grid it fails and gives me that "Cannot convert datetime to string" error. The datefield in the table is "AppDate" and is a datetime datatype and is not null. I know Sequel stores dates internally and is different then what is displayed. I have dates 01/01/1900 as default dates. I just discover that sequel uses that same date as a default date. To me its seems like Sequel is switching datetime formats and C# is not recognizing it as a valid datetime. Thanks for you quick response...|||Also should I changed my select statement and convert the date in the stored procedure
like "select AppDate = convert(datetime,AppDate) from ...|||What value does dtStartDate have??|||dtStartDate has 12/01/2003 12:00:00 AM
and the dtEndDate has 12/31/2003 12:00:00 AM|||I am not sure why you get error??
Cannot convert datetime to string
It must be probably your sorting procedure handling some parameter in wrong manner|||its funny because that what I originally though. I was able to sort by a few columns and it works. But some columns would throw that conversion error. I know I am sorting by the right field name but for some reason and I don't why but Sequel is switching datetime formats. That leads me to my original question that Sequel is returning the recordset as yyyy-mm-dd and and is there a way to change it to mm-dd-yyyy. I notice that other developers are experience the same problem and the answer seems to be that SQl Server and asp.net application have to have the same regional setting(datetime). But I haven't found an answer to change the setting in SQL Server or asp.net application. I know how to change the settings on the server but that doesn't help.|||Post your Sorting code...
