GETDATE, GETUTCDATE, SYSDATETIME and SYSUTCDATETIME Functions in SQL Server(TSQL)

dbtut February 23, 2019 MSSQL, TSQL

I will explain GETDATE, GETUTCDATE, SYSDATETIME and SYSUTCDATETIME functions in this article.

We can obtain current database timestamp as a datatime value using GETDATE function.

SELECT GETDATE();

1	SELECT GETDATE();

We can obtain current database timestamp as a datatime value without database timezone offset using GETUTCDATE function.

For example, the timezone of SQL Server that I run the following script is UTC+3.

As you can see below, the GETUTCDATE function worked based “UTC” instead of “UTC+3”.

SELECT GETDATE(); 
SELECT GETUTCDATE();

1 2	SELECT GETDATE(); SELECT GETUTCDATE();

We can obtain current date and time information as datetime2(7) value from the server on which SQL Server is running.

SELECT SYSDATETIME();

1	SELECT SYSDATETIME();

We can obtain current date and time information as datetime2(7) according to UTC from the server on which SQL Server is running.

SELECT SYSDATETIME(); 
SELECT SYSUTCDATETIME();

1 2	SELECT SYSDATETIME(); SELECT SYSUTCDATETIME();

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