title: In SQL Server, how to convert a date to a string in format M/D/YYYY? (no leading zeros, not MM/DD/YYYY)
body: <p>Right now, my code has the following conversion for a date field:</p>
  
  <pre><code>convert(varchar, Citation.PublishedOn, 101)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, that returns dates like 03/01/2010.  The request was to have the dates display as 3/1/2010 (without the leading zeros, but with a 4 digit year).  I've looked at <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187928.aspx" rel="noreferrer">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187928.aspx</a> and I'm not seeing anything that explicitly excludes leading zeros. </p>
  
  <p>How do I format the date to exclude leading zeros?</p>