>>A LIKE search do benefit from an index on a date\datetime\datetime2\datetimeoffset column.
If you're right re datetime which is what the thread is about, I'm very surprised since datetime is not stored as a string by SQL Server. i understood that LIKE on anything except a string, must involve implicit CAST to string that won't benefit from an index in a different format. But as I said earlier, I don't see how LIKE does anything for datetime you can't do with standard conditions, so I'm happy to leave it there.
>>Mind you, you cannot use BETWEEN queries for datetime range searches in MS SQL server.
So I must by lying that I've been doing it since last century? Along with quite a few others who also describe doing this online? Whatever, Cetin.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
