Thanks, I thought that the expression would resolve to 1/0 since it is used in the database for true/false, but they are seperate.


>SQL Server doesn't have a logical data type. If you're refering to the bit data type than it's a numeric data type in which 1/0 represent true/false respectivelly. SQL Serve doesn't support convertion of true/false exppression into numeric data type or vise versa. You have to use CASE function to do that.
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>>In one of my VFP queries, I have an expresion in a SQL Select that evaluates to true/false based on the comparison of a date to today.
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>>(Date() <= device.warrdate) as warranty
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>> What true if the warranty is still active, in otherwords if today is less than the warranty end date.
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>>In switching this SQL statement to pull from SQL Server, I get an syntax error when I convert the statement to:
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>>(Date() <= device.warrdate) as warranty
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>>instead I could only get it to work using an inline condition case statement
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>>CASE WHEN datediff(dd,getdate(), device.warrdate) >= 0 THEN 1 ELSE 0 END
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>>Is it not possible with T-SQL in SQL Server 2005, to have an expression evaluate to true/false (really 1/0)?