Question

I have a query like :

SELECT ..
        FROM ...
        WHERE ...
        AND ISNULL(ICA.actual_appearance_date, ICA.scheduled_appearance_date)  
            BETWEEN LO.order_start_date 
                AND ISNULL(LO.actual_expiry_date, LO.expected_expiry_date)

Is there a neat way to only check that the actual_appearance_date is between the start and end date, but not include time?

So:

Appearance Date is 03/Oct/2011 @ 14h00… and the dates we’re check are 03/Oct/2011 @ 15h00 and and 07/Oct/2011 @ 10h00.

At the moment, that would not yield a result because of the time factors. I need to do a between on the date part only… So, between 03/Oct/2011 @ 0h00 and really 08/Oct/2011 @ 0:00.

Is there a neat way to do this?

Edit:

We’re developing for a 2008 machine, but we’re developing ON 2005 machines. Long story, but I can’t use the nice and neat DATE fix.

I am trying the DATEADD method, but am finding an issue.

This is not returning the result I expect:

DECLARE  @Table TABLE
(
    StartDate DATETIME,
    EndDate DATETIME
)

INSERT INTO @Table VALUES ('02-Jan-2011 13:00:00', '07-Jan-2011 15:30:00')

SELECT * FROM @Table
DECLARE @Date DATETIME
SET @Date = '07-Jan-2011 16:00:00'

SELECT
    CASE WHEN 
        @Date BETWEEN DATEADD(dd,DATEDIFF(dd,0,StartDate),0) AND DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd,0,EndDate),0)-- must cover the appearance date or still open
    THEN 1
    ELSE 0
    END AS Result
FROM @Table

Must I add +1 to the BETWEEN dates to include the last date? ‘BETWEEN’ doesn’t seem to be inclusive of the last date..

Answer 1

You have SQL Server 2008 so just cast to date

SELECT .. 
FROM ... 
WHERE ... AND 
     CAST(ISNULL(ICA.actual_appearance_date, ICA.scheduled_appearance_date) AS date)
        BETWEEN
           CAST(LO.order_start_date AS date)
        AND 
           CAST(ISNULL(LO.actual_expiry_date, LO.expected_expiry_date) AS date)

For SQL Server 2005 and earlier, use the DATEDIFF/DATEADD trick: Best approach to remove time part of datetime in SQL Server

Do not use varchar or float conversions

Edit:, for SQL Server 2005

You need to apply the DATEADD/DATEDIFF to all values

...
SELECT
    CASE WHEN 
         DATEADD(dd,DATEDIFF(dd,0,@Date),0)
              BETWEEN DATEADD(dd,DATEDIFF(dd,0,StartDate),0)
              AND DATEADD(dd, DATEDIFF(dd,0,EndDate),0)
    THEN 1
    ELSE 0
    END AS Result
FROM @Table

Or

WHERE ... AND 
     DATEADD(dd,DATEDIFF(dd,0,ISNULL(ICA.actual_appearance_date, ICA.scheduled_appearance_date),0)
        BETWEEN
           DATEADD(dd,DATEDIFF(dd,0,LO.order_start_date),0)
        AND 
           DATEADD(dd,DATEDIFF(dd,0,ISNULL(LO.actual_expiry_date, LO.expected_expiry_date),0)