DATENAME() – Date Related Functions

I am untiring in my creation of short articles or tidbits on Transaction SQL date/time functions. Most, if not all, modern day computer systems collect data which contains dates and times. Many times you will want to convert the data from one data type to another. Today, I will be exploring the DATENAME() function. This function has 15 different input parameters that can be passed to change the resulting output. In short, the function takes a date part and date/time variables as input returns the part that you want a…