>SELECT * FROM schedule WHERE DTOC(beg_date) > '01/01/2001'.
>This is giving me all the records from the table (25226)
>
>SELECT * FROM schedule WHERE YEAR(beg_date) > 2001
>This is giving me the correct number of records (2080)
>
>Both are valid queries. Correct ?
>What did I do to make the DTOC query not work anymore ?
>Am I going crazy ?
>
>Thanks, Ken
A string comparison is done. This only produces useful results if the string has the format year-month-date. The following string comparison should work:
DTOS(beg_date) >= "20010101"
However, it is simpler to compare as dates, not as strings.
Hilmar.
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