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obewankanoochie
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Posted - 2008-10-06 : 18:34:32

I'm trying to create a date using the following SQL:

CAST(year(dateAdd("year",1,getdate())) + '/' & month(getdate()) + '/' + day(getdate()) AS smalldatetime) AS moderndate

Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.

tkizer
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Posted - 2008-10-06 : 18:36:50

Well could you explain in words what you are trying to do?

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obewankanoochie
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Posted - 2008-10-06 : 18:44:55

sorry. I'm trying to create a smalldatetime variable that looks like '2009-10-06'. I might be passing in other values for month and date though, so I was trying to put three variable together (year/month/day). thanks.

tkizer
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Posted - 2008-10-06 : 18:49:14

smalldatetime holds the time value too, so just use this: DATEADD(Day, DATEDIFF(Day, 0, GetDate()), 0)

Or for variables:
@year + '/' + @month + '/' + @day

But you'll get 00:00 for time.

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