>>In Management Studio, can you "Script Table > CREATE to > Clipboard" and paste it here?
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>Ok after checking, you are completely right, the data is not in date format, but rather in a format as minutes from january 1, 1988 which is plain weird.
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>Now if i run
>result = SQLEXEC(Handle, "select dateadd(minute, 9286560, '1988/01/01')")
>i get the correct result ( 28/8/2005)
>
>Many thanks for driving me to the right direction!

Glad to have helped (& long time no see...).