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a function to a string of the day of the week 1

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henin

henin

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Oct 30, 2007
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Hi everyone
Is there a built in function in the sql server that shows the day of the week as follows:
dayofweek('20080129')->"tuesday"',
dayofweek('20080130')->"wednsday" etc ?
or must i create it myself ?
thanks
 
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BOL: DATENAME ( datepart ,date )


DECLARE @A DATETIME
SET @A = GETDATE()

SELECT DATENAME(dw,@A)
 
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