Show datediff as seconds, milliseconds
SELECT
DATEDIFF(MILLISECOND, begin, end) / 1000,
DATEDIFF(MILLISECOND, begin, end) % 1000
FROM ...;
If you absolutely must form it as a string in your SQL query (can't your presentation tier do that?), then:
SELECT
CONVERT(VARCHAR(12), DATEDIFF(MILLISECOND, begin, end) / 1000)
+ ','
+ RIGHT('000' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(4), DATEDIFF(MILLISECOND, begin, end) % 1000), 3)
FROM ...;
Also I really hope you have better column names than begin
and end
.
Actually, the marked answer originally produced wrong results for milliseconds 1 - 99:
Example 1 second, 27 milliseconds:
DATEDIFF % 1000
will return 27CONVERT
will convert to'27'
- String concatenation will build
'1' + ',' + '27'
- Result:
'1.27'
which means 270ms rather than 27ms
Don't forget to pad the milliseconds to three zeros:
DECLARE @start datetime2(7) = '2015-07-03 09:24:33.000'
DECLARE @end datetime2(7) = '2015-07-03 09:24:34.027'
SELECT
CAST (DATEDIFF(SECOND, @start, @end) AS nvarchar(3)) + N'.' +
RIGHT('000' + CAST((DATEDIFF(MILLISECOND, @start, @end) % 1000) AS nvarchar(3)), 3)