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  • December 16, 2010 at 7:10 am

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    andell_ramsay (12/15/2010)

    Jeff -

    How then would one be able to sort chronologically on this field? Is there a way to keep the format while changing the data type to a numeric format?

    To answer the questions above in order... You can't and yes. 😛

    See the following SQL Spackle article for one way to do this...

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/T-SQL/71511/

    --Jeff Moden

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    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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