Question

A column name rcvdate, which is having datetime type, the value is like this:

2009-10-20 10:00:00

I want to do a select, my query:

SELECT * 
FROM data 
WHERE rcvdate = '2009-10-20' 

Not working, I am expecting runnable query as I checked lots of query but they did’t worked.

Answer 1

Check against an interval if you want all rows for one day:

SELECT * 
FROM data 
WHERE rcvdate >= '20091020' AND
      rcvdate < DATEADD(day, 1, '20091020')

From SQL Server 2008 you can use this instead:

SELECT * 
FROM data 
WHERE CAST(rcvdate as DATE) = '2009-10-20'

Cast to date is sargable but is it a good idea?