Question

I am trying to execute this query against SQL Server 2008:

SELECT Count(*) FROM tblSharesSentRequests WHERE [SentDate] = getdate()

This returns 0 rows, even though I have 1 row with a SentDate set to “2012-7-13”

This SQL statement works fine:

SELECT Count(*) FROM tblSharesSentRequests WHERE [SentDate] = '2012-7-13'

it returns 1 row.

Why doesn’t it work when I use getdate()?

Answer 1

I hope SentDate is a datetime type variable, is it?

If so try to strip the time from date time:

SELECT DATEADD(d, DATEDIFF(d, 0, GetDate()), 0)

So your query becomes:

SELECT Count(*) FROM tblSharesSentRequests WHERE [SentDate] = DATEADD(d, DATEDIFF(d, 0, getdate()), 0)

If you are using 2008 you can do as the comment states: CAST(GetDate() as date).

A simpler way express it is:

SELECT Count(*)
FROM tblSharesSentRequests
WHERE [SentDate] = cast(getdate() as date)

The type ended up being just a Date and not a datetime. The answer to this was to use the following:

WHERE SentDate = CONVERT(Date, GetDate())