>>I have a character field in which we store dates (format is 01/01/2000) of a persons visit. I would like to select only those that are no further back then todays date. I am using the getdate() function to determine the day. However I cannot get the results to come back correctly.
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>>what i am looking for
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>>select * from mytable where ddate >( getdate() - 6 months)
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>You might want to try...
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>select * from mytable where covert(datetime, ddate) > (getdate()-180)
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>BOb

Another way to do it is use the DATEDIFF() function.

select * from mytable where datediff(m,ddate, getdate()) <= 6