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Asked: 2026-05-14T03:24:36+00:00

Does any one know how I would have to change the following to work

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Does any one know how I would have to change the following to work with ms sql?

WHERE registrationDate between to_date ('2003/01/01', 'yyyy/mm/dd')
AND to_date ('2003/12/31', 'yyyy/mm/dd');

What I have read implies I would have to construct it using DATEPART() which could become very long winded. Especially when the goal would be to compare on dates which I receive in the following format “2003-12-30 10:07:42”. It would be nice to pass them off to the database as is.

Any pointers appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use:

    WHERE registrationdate BETWEEN '01/01/2003' AND '12/31/2003'

    …but as gbn pointed out, to be locale safe – use:

    WHERE registrationdate BETWEEN '20030101' AND '20031231'

    SQL Server will perform implicit conversion of the string into a date, providing it’s a supported format. Explicit conversion is when you have to use CAST or CONVERT to change the data type.

    When converting ’01/01/2003′ to a DATETIME, the time portion will be 00:00:00 because it wasn’t specified.

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