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Carlos Iglesias

Posted Thursday, November 22, 2007 9:56 PM

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Because time is not infinite ... above all in milliseconds :D

How to do?

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tim_brimelow

Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 5:00 AM

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The explanation is a little lacking. The cause of the overflow error is the use of ms (millisecond)in the command. If another unit of time is used ie second, then no error will result. BOL actually state the maximum length of time. I will leave it to the reader to find this number. (Boy did I hate this statement at uni when I was studying mathematics!)

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Carlos Iglesias

Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 5:17 AM

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declare @timems numeric
select @timems =(cast(datediff (dd,getdate()-28,getdate()) as numeric)* 86400000)
select @timems
--86400000 msxday

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Kangana Beri

Posted Monday, November 26, 2007 12:54 PM

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The following will work even for the ms (milli second) unit of time:

select datediff (ms,getdate()-24,getdate())

Explanation can be found at:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189794.aspx

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Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 12:04 PM

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Nothing worth "bragging" about. All I had to do was run that query in the Query Analyzer.
And got the answer instantanewously, no delay at all.

So, such trick questions buying "braging" rigths are just too easy.

Doze

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Carlos Iglesias

Posted Tuesday, November 27, 2007 2:24 PM

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Practically all the questions are answered using a query analyzer and/or a google search, but this isn't the way to answer them ... we aren't at school :P

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