>I have a stored procedure in SQL Server 7 that incluses a select statement along the lines of SELECT * FROM table WHERE date_add >= @bdate and date_add <= @edate. @bdate and @edate are datetime parmaters to this procedure.
>
>The following SPT works fine:
>
>ln_return=SQLEXEC(ln_handle, "myproc '01/01/2001','01/01/2001'")
>*Note yes I should give it better strings -- but for teting purposes these work
>*fine.
>*ln_return=1
>*And I do indeed get one sqlresult cursor
>
>*This following fails
>ln_bdate=datetime()
>ln_edate=datetime()
>ln_return=SQLEXEC(ln_handle, "myproc ?d1,?d2")
>*ln_return = -1 meaning an error
>* and of course I get no results cursors
>* Is this an ODBC problem? A UFU on my part? Help!
>*
You will need to convert the date values to character strings before sending them to SQL server:
ln_return=SQLEXEC(ln_handle, "myproc " + DTOC(ln_bdate) + "," + DTOC(ln_edate))
Dan LeClair
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