LInked server to Oracle database fail data conversion

• Denise McMillan

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  November 30, 2012 at 1:15 pm

  #285426

  On a SQL Server instance I have a linked server to an Oracle database. If I run query using a date it is ok from SSMS master database. But if I try to run it in a user database the date conversion fails. Is this the way it is, I have to use master? Or can I fix the conversion?

  Query has:

  ... where Linkname..databasename.datefield = '2011-01-01 00:00:00.0000000'

  It runs fine in master but when run in a user database I get error:

  "Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string"

  Thanks.

• Jo Pattyn

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  November 30, 2012 at 4:39 pm

  #1564603

  make sure you make it a date-datatype instead of a string using cast or convert

  Comparing dates with strings is usually a recipe for disaster