Question : Convert SQL datetime to timestamp

Hi,
Im having a big problem with yet another simple task :)
Trying to get MS SQL to convert its datetime type to a UNIX timestamp
How can this be done?  I know in MySQL there is the UNIX_TIMESTAMP function, but how does this relate in mssql?
The problem exists becuase I am trying to use PHP to convert the mssql datetime to a unix timestamp, and then back.
If I get a date from the database such as 2004-Sep-03 05:09:00 and use the php function strtotime() on that, it converts it, but then using strftime() converts it back and it ends up being somewhere around 2010!!
Help!

Answer : Convert SQL datetime to timestamp

UNIX_TIMESTAMP()

If called with no argument, returns a Unix timestamp (seconds since '1970-01-01 00:00:00' GMT) as an unsigned integer. If UNIX_TIMESTAMP() is called with a date argument, it returns the value of the argument as seconds since '1970-01-01 00:00:00'


here is how can you do it in MSSQL

select datediff(second, '1970-01-01 00:00:00','2004-Sep-03 05:09:00')

Imran