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Asked: 2026-05-26T18:33:24+00:00

I have an existing database that was setup (for whatever reason??) to store a

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I have an existing database that was setup (for whatever reason??) to store a date time as a string. I need to run a query for records that where entered between a specific date range but am not having any luck.

The string field is formatted like 1/25/2007 - 4:39 PM. I have tried the query below but of course it doesn’t work. Any help would be appreciated.

SELECT ID, CUSTOMER, ADD1, ADDZ, CITY, STATE, LASTD, ORDNUM
FROM dcar
WHERE  (STATE = N'OR') AND (CAST(dcar.LASTD AS datetime) BETWEEN convert(smalldatetime, '10/01/2011', 101) AND convert(smalldatetime, '10/31/2011', 101))

PS – I have no idea why the developer decided to store dates this way!!!!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think you should be able to cast the field as a datetime, if you remove the dash between the date and time with the REPLACE function like so:

    SELECT ID, CUSTOMER, ADD1, ADDZ, CITY, STATE, LASTD, ORDNUM
FROM dcar
WHERE  (STATE = N'OR') AND
CAST(REPLACE(dcar.LASTD, ' -', '') AS DATETIME) BETWEEN '10/01/2011' AND '10/31/2011'
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