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globus71
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 Posted - 2011-06-16 : 04:53:48
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| Hi,I'm a real newbie at this stuff and would really appreciate what's going wrong here.The following statement is run on SQL 2008 serverselect distinct FirstName,LastName from MyTable where date1='" . date("Y-m-d") . "'returning the error "Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string."The date1 column is in a datetime format.Would really appreciate a pointer if poss?Thanks |
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nigelrivett
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2011-06-16 : 05:19:55
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| What are you trying to do?maybeselect distinct FirstName,LastName from MyTable where datediff(dd,date1,getdate()) = 0==========================================Cursors are useful if you don't know sql.SSIS can be used in a similar way.Beer is not cold and it isn't fizzy. |
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webfred
Master Smack Fu Yak Hacker
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Posted - 2011-06-16 : 05:37:44
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@Globus71: Why do you use some kind of PHP syntax?
No, you're never too old to Yak'n'Roll if you're too young to die. |
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globus71
Starting Member
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Posted - 2011-06-16 : 05:46:32
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| Thanks guys.Yes, this is being run from a PHP script.Anyway, the getdate() stuff worked OK.Thanks for your help :) |
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Help with DATE() function please ?