>>Hi,
>>
>>Could you please explain why (where is the rule?) the SQL Server always looks at the date in the following format: 'yyyyMMdd' (no matter the date format of the country where the SQL Server is installed).
>>
>>That is, the following code:
>>
>>DECLARE @SomeDate AS SmallDateTime
>>SELECT @SomeDate = '20190204'
>>SELECT @SomeDate
>>
>>
>>always returns February 4th of 2019 (and NOT April 2nd).
>>
>>TIA
>
>It is "canonical ODBC format". Should be declared in some ODBC proposal.
Thank you.
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