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gangadhara.ms
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Posted - 2009-10-08 : 10:45:56

Hi All,
I am using this query

SELECT
CASE WHEN DATEDIFF(MONTH, '2009-01-10','2010-10-01') > 1 THEN 'GREATER THAN 12 MONTHS'
ELSE DATEDIFF(MONTH,'2009-01-10','2010-10-01') END AS 'Age in TES',
CASE WHEN DATEDIFF(MONTH,'2009-01-10','2010-10-01') > 1 THEN 'GREATER THAN 12 MONTHS'
ELSE DATEDIFF(MONTH,'2009-01-10','2010-10-01') END AS 'Age Since Service Date'

but i am getting error "Conversion failed when converting the varchar value 'GREATER THAN 12 MONTHS' to data type int."

Pls help

madhivanan
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22864 Posts

Posted - 2009-10-08 : 10:50:45

SELECT
CASE WHEN DATEDIFF(MONTH, '2009-01-10','2010-10-01') > 1 THEN 'GREATER THAN 12 MONTHS'
ELSE cast(DATEDIFF(MONTH,'2009-01-10','2010-10-01') as varchar(10)) END AS 'Age in TES',
CASE WHEN DATEDIFF(MONTH,'2009-01-10','2010-10-01') > 1 THEN 'GREATER THAN 12 MONTHS'
ELSE cast(DATEDIFF(MONTH,'2009-01-10','2010-10-01') as varchar(10)) END AS 'Age Since Service Date'

Madhivanan

Failing to plan is Planning to fail

gangadhara.ms
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549 Posts

Posted - 2009-10-08 : 11:09:27

Thanks a lot madhavanan..

madhivanan
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Posted - 2009-10-09 : 01:51:04

quote:
Originally posted by gangadhara.ms

Thanks a lot madhavanan..

Note the change I made. All the values should be same in datatype

Madhivanan

Failing to plan is Planning to fail

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