Hmm, I could have sworn there was a date part to datepart but I just looked it in my help and there is not. I also looked at DATEFORMAT( now(), 'Mm/dd/yyyy' ) as ddate but that value is returned as a char(). I do most of my work with a Sybase database that is tsql compatible but there are some differences. Not sure if dateformat() is available in MSSql.


>>Hi Yew,
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>>in addition to James' suggestion of using datepart in the query, SQL2008 does in fact have a date column type: http://www.sqlteam.com/article/using-the-date-data-type-in-sql-server-2008. Since you are using SPT, you are probably not updating the cursor (by setting the cursor properties to support buffering, etc.), so datepart ought to work for you.
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>>hth,
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>>Hank
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>Hank,
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>How are you suggesting to use datepart in this query?