Extracting hours from a DateTime (SQL Server 2005)

I can extract the month and day by using Day(Date()), Month(Date()). I can't extract hours, with HOUR(Date()). I get the following error.

'HOUR' is not a recognized built-in function name.

How can I extract hours?

Solution 1:

SELECT DATEPART(HOUR, GETDATE());

DATEPART documentation

... you can use it on any granularity type i.e.:

DATEPART(YEAR, [date])

DATEPART(MONTH, [date]) 

DATEPART(DAY, [date])    

DATEPART(HOUR, [date]) 

DATEPART(MINUTE, [date])

(note: I like the [ ] around the date reserved word though. Of course that's in case your column with timestamp is labeled "date")