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awalker
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12 Posts

Posted - 2012-12-01 : 00:24:21

I am trying to make a stored procedure where it gets passed a datetime, I take the datetime that was passed and call DATENAME to get the name of the day and set it to a variable. I am not sure this made sence but here is what I have so far, it just does not seem to be working.


@appointmentDate datetime

declare dow varchar(15);
set dow = datename(dw, @appointmentDate);

update dbo.Appointments where @dow = 'Tuesday'

awalker
Starting Member

12 Posts

Posted - 2012-12-01 : 00:49:04

I think I figured it out. I needed to have it be

select dow = datename(dw, @appointmentDate);

Elizabeth B. Darcy
Starting Member

39 Posts

Posted - 2012-12-01 : 08:20:00

If dow is a scalar variable, you would do this:

declare @dow varchar(15)

If that is so, then you can use set or select - either should work, notwithstanding some subtle differences.

On the other hand, if dow is a column in a table, then you should not have the declare statement that is in your posting.

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bandi
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker

2242 Posts

Posted - 2012-12-03 : 02:03:28

Case 1:

@appointmentDate datetime

declare @dow varchar(15);
set @dow = datename(dw, @appointmentDate);

update dbo.Appointments
SET columnName = value
where @dow = 'Tuesday'

Case 2:
@appointmentDate datetime

declare @dow varchar(15);
select @dow = datename(dw, @appointmentDate);

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