Hi Dmitry,
my guess is that you are using an old ODBC driver that does not know the Date type.

>Just a follow-up question.
>Why does the field DATE (in the SQL Select you suggested) is a Char type? Nothing wrong. I would just like to understand why when you CAST the DateTime to DATE, the result is a char type and not a Date type.
>
>>SELECT MAX( cast( DateTimeField as Date)) from MyTable
>>
>>Now...if you want to find all the rows (i.e. transactions) that have that same date as the max date
>>
>>SELECT * from MyTransactions
>>where cast( DateTimeField as date) = (SELECT MAX( cast( DateTimeField as Date)) from MyTransactions)
>>
>>
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I am working on creating a SQL Select (against a SQL Server) to find a record with the most recent DATETIME field. But I am only concerned with the DATE portion of this DATETIME field (since the time is irrelevant). Here is a small pseudo example:
>>>

>>>select Date_Time from MyTable where Date_Time_Is_Most_Recent
>>>

>>>
>>>TIA