SQL Server 2000. That's odd, is there some other setting that could be giving me results different from you?

>Yes, I tested it under SQL 2000 and it returns result w/o spaces. What version are you running?
>
>>Sergey, did you test this? Here are my results:
>>
>>select convert(varchar,getdate(),114)
>>retuns: 08:01:30:890
>>
>>select replace(convert(varchar,getdate(),114),':','')
>>returns: 08 01 30 890
>>
>>Notice the spaces that are being returned.
>>
>>>You can use T_SQL REPLACE() function to remove colons.

SELECT REPLACE(CONVERT(varchar(32), getdate(),114), ':', '')