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Asked: 2026-05-16T07:54:47+00:00

I am trying to find how many days are between two dates. I have

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I am trying to find how many days are between two dates. I have been attempting to use this:

SET Days_Outstanding = DATEDIFF(day, CONVERT(datetime, LS_CHG_DTE_EQP, 1), CONVERT(datetime, Report_Date, 1))

However, this is not returning the number in days. It’s returning a datetime in years that have nothing to do with my data set.

I’m not sure where the problem is, still fairly new to SQL. Also, I have Days_Outstanding defined as an int, could that be the problem? Thanks!

EDIT

Thanks everyone! Not sure what happened, I changed a few things to what you suggested and it wound up working when I went back to what I had originally. Not sure what happened. Thanks thought!

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  1. Editorial Team

    DATEDIFF returns integer

    However, the number of days could be plain wrong depending on the values/datatype of LS_CHG_DTE_EQP/Report_Date and locale

    Also, DATEDIFF works on day boundaries not 24 hour periods. So 23:56 to 00:02 is one day.

    Otherwise, please add example input and output.

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