Home/ Questions/Q 1114321
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-17T02:59:22+00:00

I have such a simple question, I feel stupid for asking it. I can’t

  • 0

I have such a simple question, I feel stupid for asking it. I can’t believe I’m hitting my head on this.

I have a table called “Orders”. “Orders” has a smalldatetime field called “DateOrdered”. I need to get all of the “Orders” on a specific date. I have tried the following without any success:

SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE [DateOrdered]=2010-06-01

SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE [DateOrdered]='2010-06-01'

SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE [DateOrdered]=CAST('2010-06-01' AS smalldatetime)

What am I doing wrong? I can’t believe I’m even asking this question.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    The first query compares the date to the number 2003 (2010 minus 6 minus 1) which converts into the date '1905-06-27'. The second and third query would work for exact date values (i.e. with a 00:00 time component), and are equivalent.

    Do you have a time component in your smalldatetime values? In that case you can get the values in an interval:

    SELECT * FROM Orders WHERE DateOrdered >= '2010-06-01' 
                       and DateOrdered < '2010-06-02'

    Notice the use of >= and < instead of the between keyword, to exclude any records that might have the exact value 2010-06-02.

    • 0