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>The empty date value is not the same as NULL and neither ODBC driver nor SQL Server support empty dates. The SQl Server stores all datetime values as offset from "1/1/1900". That's why empty date is converted to it by SQL Server.
Now I understand. Thank you very much, Sergey.
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