Question

Here’s the scenario. The column in question is called ‘datein’ and it’s type is ‘datetime’. I have three rows with the value of ‘2009-10-01 00:00:00.000’ for ‘datein’. Why does this query return the aforementioned rows?

SELECT  *
FROM    t_call AS tc
WHERE   tc.datein >= '2009-09-30 00:00:00.000'
        AND tc.datein <= '2009-09-30 23:59:59.999'

Using

SELECT  *
FROM    t_call AS tc
WHERE   tc.datein BETWEEN '2009-09-30 00:00:00.000'
        AND '2009-09-30 23:59:59.999'

returns the same result

Answer 1

It’s the lack of precision in the thousandths of a second value. Try “.997” instead.

MSDN DateTime documentation

Run this and you’ll see:

declare @dt datetime

select @dt = '2009-09-30 23:59:59.999'
select @dt