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Date comparsion ?

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mapperkids
Yak Posting Veteran

50 Posts

Posted - 2007-05-23 : 22:16:40

Hi,

FieldA contain a string '05/23/2007' and I tried the following in the filter for comparsion and select the FieldA equal to current date

Convert(Datetime, FieldA, 101) = GetDate()

It doesn't give me error, just no record returned.

Am I do something wrong on that statement?

Thanks!

khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

17689 Posts

Posted - 2007-05-23 : 22:18:17

What is the datatype for FeildA ? datetime or string ?

mapperkids
Yak Posting Veteran

50 Posts

Posted - 2007-05-23 : 22:33:53

The fieldA defined as nChar(12) string

khtan
In (Som, Ni, Yak)

17689 Posts

Posted - 2007-05-23 : 22:39:10

any particular reason why you are not using datetime to store a date ?

you can either use

convert(datetime, FieldA, 101) = dateadd(day, datediff(day, 0, getdate()), 0)

FieldA = convert(varchar(10), getdate(), 101)

Note : getdate() will return current date & time. The dateadd, datediff combination will set the time to 00:00:00

You should use datetime data type for your FieldA if possible.

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