As i said in the title i have problems sorting my data in the correct order. I have tried a few different combinations but they all return the data in the wrong manner. The date column is in datetime format A few codes that i have tried :

    SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), recievedDate, 104) as day
    FROM table
    GROUP BY CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), recievedDate, 104)
    ORDER BY CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), recievedDate, 104)

Returns data as :

01.02.2021
01.03.2021
01.04.2021
02.02.2021
02.03.2021
...

I'v tried :

    SELECT FORMAT(CONVERT(DATETIME, CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), recievedDate, 121)),'dd.MM.yyyy')
    FROM table
    GROUP BY FORMAT(CONVERT(DATETIME, CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), recievedDate, 121)),'dd.MM.yyyy')
    ORDER BY FORMAT(CONVERT(DATETIME, CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), recievedDate, 121)),'dd.MM.yyyy')

Which returns same results

But what i want is :

01.01.2021
02.01.2021
03.01.2021
01.02.2021

And so on...i really don't know why it groups up all the months then orders them by the day

CodePudding user response：

Group the datetime by converting to date and format the date after grouping:

SELECT CONVERT(VARCHAR(10), CONVERT(date, recievedDate), 104)
FROM t
GROUP BY CONVERT(date, recievedDate)
ORDER BY CONVERT(date, recievedDate)