Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 11/29/05 10:35

sql guy123 (stoppal@hotmail.com) writes:
> I'm actually not really trying to format the date, but rather set the
> default value of the column(field) to the first day of the month.
>
> example: 1/1/2005, 2/1/2005, 3/1/2005 etc...
>
> What is the best way to get the default value in MS SQL to be the first
> day of the month?

convert(datetime, convert(char(6), getdate(), 112) + '01')



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