Thank you.
>Same as what Frank said, my guess is that your driver doesn't recognize the Date Data Type (which MS added back in SQL 2008, I believe)
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>>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.
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>>>SELECT MAX( cast( DateTimeField as Date)) from MyTable
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>>>Now...if you want to find all the rows (i.e. transactions) that have that same date as the max date
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>>>SELECT * from MyTransactions
>>>where cast( DateTimeField as date) = (SELECT MAX( cast( DateTimeField as Date)) from MyTransactions)
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>>>>Hi,
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>>>>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:
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>>>>select Date_Time from MyTable where Date_Time_Is_Most_Recent
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>>>>TIA
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