>I have a MySql table with a DateTime field. I want to get all the records for today.

>ldDate = DATE()
>=SQLEXEC(lnHandle,"SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE dtField = ?ldDate")

>This produces no records, which is expected since I'm not accounting for the time portion of the field. But when I tried

>=SQLEXEC(lnHandle,"SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE DATE(dtField) = ?ldDate")

>I also got no records back. When I tried

>ldDate = DATE()
>lcDate = TRANSFORM(DTOS(ldDate),"@R 9999-99-99")
>=SQLEXEC(lnHandle,"SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE DATE(dtField) = ?lcDate")

>I got the records I wanted.
>
>Could somebody tell me why passing a Date value doesn't work while passing a character representation of the date does work?
>
>Thanks............Rich

Use lower range and upper range instead, e.g.

ldStartDate = Date()
ldEndDate = date() + 1

=SQLEXEC(lnHandle,"SELECT * FROM myTable WHERE dtField >= ?ldStartDate and dtField < ?ldEndDate")