Depends on the input format. I prefer to convert input to dates first and then compare. You will have to convert anyway.

set @from = year1...

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I hate dates in sql

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Hey! Come on chaps, a bit tongue in cheek here.

I do...

Nice one Jonathan, will have to remember that one

Oops!

My apologies

I hate dates in sql

Your query will result in null because you have not initialized @mail, use

set @mail = '' 

or simply do this

set...

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SET DATEFORMAT dmySELECT KeyCol, DateColFROM YourTableWHERE ISDATE(DateCol) = 0

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Jonathan,

Depends on language settings, eg

English

2003-11-15 1

2003-15-11...

If user input dates have no times then

SELECT <Table Fields> 

FROM <Table> 

WHERE <Sample Date> >= <User Input Data1> 

AND <Sample Date> < DATEADD(d,1,<User Input...

In SQL7 DTS, if you use a test file with the maximum number of columns and define the properties of the file, then when you use real data file, sql...

I do this sort of thing frequently and use SP to do it. First I update first table by inner join second table on key. Then I left outer join...

It is an alias and is mandatory when using subqueries (derived tables). As CP is an alias for CustomerPwd in your example. So your query could have looked something like...

One way is to use temp table

SET NOCOUNT ON 



CREATE TABLE #temp ( 

Owner varchar (36), 

Object varchar (62), 

Grantee varchar (18), 

Grantor varchar (36),...

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Eagles fly. Turkeys skydive.

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Yeh. It's hard to fly like an Eagle when you work...

Duplicate data can be caused by more than 1 matching row in multiple tables or by insufficient matching of tables. You need to check what is duplicated and do as...

SET @sSQL = N'SELECT @Serial = Serial FROM ' + 

@DBName + 

'.[dbo].[Transaction_Mapping] WHERE TransType = @sTransType' 



execute sp_executesql 

@sSQL, 

N'@sTransType varchar(10), @Serial varchar(10) output', 

@sTransType,...

select * 

from P_Trade 

where charindex(','+cast(TypeId as varchar)+',',','+@Typeid+',') > 0