getting values for current day using getDate() functon

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getting values for current day using getDate() functon

mpeters-878100

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September 23, 2008 at 12:03 am

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I have a table that has the following field
[LOGDATETIMESTAMP] [datetime] NULL ,
which basically contains the date and time that the row was inserted
I want to return all of values where the datetimeStamp is = to the current day.
Is this possible using the getDate Function. I dont want to hard code the day as this will be used by a stored procedure

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Madhivanan-208264 SSCertifiable Points: 7516 More actions · Answer 1

mpeters (9/23/2008)
I have a table that has the following field
[LOGDATETIMESTAMP] [datetime] NULL ,
which basically contains the date and time that the row was inserted
I want to return all of values where the datetimeStamp is = to the current day.
Is this possible using the getDate Function. I dont want to hard code the day as this will be used by a stored procedure

Where LOGDATETIMESTAMP>=dateadd(day,datediff(day,0,getdate()),0) and LOGDATETIMESTAMP<dateadd(day,datediff(day,0,getdate()),1)

Madhivanan

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ChrisM@Work SSC Guru Points: 186127 More actions · Answer 2

Hi mpeters

Here's the theory:

Get the current datetime using getdate()

Strip off the time component, which gives today

Add a day to the result, which gives tomorrow with no time component:

[font="Courier New"]DECLARE @Today DATETIME, @Tomorrow DATETIME

SET @Today = DATEADD(dd,DATEDIFF(dd, 0, GETDATE()), 0) -- '2008-09-23 00:00:00.000'

SET @Tomorrow = DATEADD(dd,1,@Today) -- '2008-09-24 00:00:00.000'

SELECT @Today, @Tomorrow -- Check the results

SELECT *

FROM yourtable

WHERE [LOGDATETIMESTAMP] >= @Today AND [LOGDATETIMESTAMP] < @Tomorrow[/font]

Cheers

ChrisM

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mpeters-878100 Right there with Babe Points: 716 More actions · Answer 3

Awesome, thank for all the help guys, thought there might have been a function that made it a bit easier