The date literals can either be represented as strings or numbers. See BOL for details.
The 22/08/2006 is 22 devided by 8 and devided by 2006 which is equals 0. 0 is base SQL date = 01/01/1900. Try

WHERE edc_dentry = '2006-08-22'

You can also use SPT parameters

 ldDate = DATE(2006,08,22)
...
WHERE edc_dentry = ?ldDate

>Thanks, initially I had the single quotes around the date time, but got an error about problems converting the character value (or something like that).
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>I have since found that if I just put:
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>WHERE edc_dentry = 22/08/2006
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>I at least get some data (even though the edc_dentry field has a value of 01/01/1900 in it!
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>Is there some better way of passing a date value to SQL Server that won't have the problem of whether using DMY or MDY or YMD format dates?
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