>>Yes, that's what I meant by culture - the windows set for European dates will error on American MM/DD/YY format but I think there is override or something in SSMS, but I'm really not an expert.
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>There has to be because we had to switch the date format for him so he could make it work.
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>So, for now, until we find where the setting is, I simply adjust the script for the proper date format.
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>Thanks
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SET DATEFORMAT
in BOL.
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