How to add hours to current date in SQL Server?

I am trying to add hours to current time like

-- NOT A VALID STATEMENT -- SELECT GetDate(DATEADD (Day, 5, GETDATE())) 

How can I get hours ahead time in SQL Server?

6 Answers

DATEADD (datepart , number , date )

declare @num_hours int; set @num_hours = 5; select dateadd(HOUR, @num_hours, getdate()) as time_added, getdate() as curr_date 

Select JoiningDate ,Dateadd (day , 30 , JoiningDate) from Emp Select JoiningDate ,DateAdd (month , 10 , JoiningDate) from Emp Select JoiningDate ,DateAdd (year , 10 , JoiningDate ) from Emp Select DateAdd(Hour, 10 , JoiningDate ) from emp Select dateadd (hour , 10 , getdate()), getdate() Select dateadd (hour , 10 , joiningDate) from Emp Select DateAdd (Second , 120 , JoiningDate ) , JoiningDate From EMP 

The DATEADD() function adds or subtracts a specified time interval from a date.

DATEADD(datepart,number,date) 

datepart(interval) can be hour, second, day, year, quarter, week etc; number (increment int); date(expression smalldatetime)

For example if you want to add 30 days to current date you can use something like this

 select dateadd(dd, 30, getdate()) 

To Substract 30 days from current date

select dateadd(dd, -30, getdate()) 

declare @hours int = 5; select dateadd(hour,@hours,getdate()) 

SELECT GETDATE() + (hours / 24.00000000000000000) 

Adding to GETDATE() defaults to additional days, but it will also convert down to hours/seconds/milliseconds using decimal.

If you are using mySql or similar SQL engines then you can use the DATEADD method to add hour, date, month, year to a date.

select dateadd(hour, 5, now()); 

If you are using postgreSQL you can use the interval option to add values to the date.

select now() + interval '1 hour';