Question

I am trying to write a sql query like the example below, however, I need it to always choose the DateEntered field between the current day’s date at 8:00am and the current day’s date at 4:00pm. Not sure how to go about this. Can someone please help?

SELECT     OrderNumber
    , OrderRelease
    , HeatNumber
    , HeatSuffix
    , Operation
    , COUNT(Operation) AS [Pieces Out of Tolerance]
FROM         Alerts
WHERE     (Mill = 3) 
    AND (DateEntered BETWEEN GetDate '08:00' AND GetDate '16:00')
GROUP BY OrderNumber, OrderRelease, HeatNumber, HeatSuffix, Operation

Answer 1

DECLARE @TodayODBC varchar(30), @DateFrom datetime, @DateTo datetime
SET @TodayODBC = CONVERT(varchar(10), GETDATE(), 120)
SET @DateFrom = CONVERT(datetime, @TodayODBC + ' 08:00:00', 120)
SET @DateTo   = CONVERT(datetime, @TodayODBC + ' 16:00:00', 120)

SELECT OrderNumber, OrderRelease, HeatNumber, HeatSuffix, Operation,
    COUNT(Operation) AS [Pieces Out of Tolerance]
FROM Alerts
WHERE (Mill = 3) 
AND (DateEntered BETWEEN @DateFrom AND @DateTo)
GROUP BY OrderNumber, OrderRelease, HeatNumber, HeatSuffix, Operation

The , 120 specifies ODBC datetime format, which is constant regardless of the locale.