Question

I have a SQL command in crystal reports (its OK if your not familiar with crystal) and I need to convert a date parameter to a decimal (to match a column in the database.)

SELECT decimaldate FROM TABLE1 WHERE decimaldate = {?normaldate} 
--ex: 12/01/2011 needs to become 12012011

IF I use a CAST on the above query it doesn’t work:

SELECT decimaldate FROM TABLE1 WHERE decimaldate =
 CAST(CAST{?normaldate} AS VARCHAR) AS DECIMAL)

Answer 1

Try something like this.

 select CAST(replace(convert(varchar, getdate(), 101), '/', '') AS DECIMAL)

Or something like this where @normaldate is the search date.

SELECT decimaldate FROM TABLE1 WHERE decimaldate = CAST(replace(convert(varchar, @normaldate, 101), '/', '') AS DECIMAL)