>>Thanks for quick response!
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>>This is for SQL Pass Through. We have a program that converts the FoxPro data to acceptable to SQL Server. The current code converts the date to a string which is fine for datetime but not small date. I will try out the SQLColumns function.
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>You should still be able to pass a datetime constant to SQL Server as a character value. SQL Server will do the implicit conversion. Are you getting an error because of the precision of the smalldatetime datatype.
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>-Mike

No. According to the Transact-SQL Reference on page 189 there is a table of the data conversions. When comparing a DateTime to Char is implicit but comparing a smalldatetime to Char is explicit.
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