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Asked: 2026-05-18T10:53:33+00:00

I have a table that contains records, with a DATETIME column. I am writing

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I have a table that contains records, with a DATETIME column. I am writing a stored proc that will take a startTime and endTime and return all records between these two times. I want to force users to provide the time in a specific format (‘YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.nnn’). The reason being I don’t my table contains a lot of records, and I don’t want to limit the data retrieval to two points in time during the same day only (so they must provide times to a seconds granularity at least).

Is there anyway to enforce this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Yes, but then you have to take the parameters as strings (varchar) instead of datetime, as the datetime values 2010-12-08 and 2010-12-08 00:00:00.000 are the same.

    You can verify that the length of the input strings meet the requirement, and then convert them to datetime using convert(datetime, startTime, 126).

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