Question

I want to limit a report to return records from Date A through Date B. This is what I have been doing:

declare @startDate varchar(20) declare @endDate varchar(20) set @startDate = '01/01/2008' set @endDate = '04/01/2008' -- test what are the start and end dates select min(date),max(date) from view_Inspections  where date between @startDate and @endDate 

… which I was told returned records from 12 am Jan 1st through 11:59 pm March 31st (that midnight is the default when no time is indicated). But I noticed a discrepancy, which is if a record has a time of 00:00:00 that it will be part of this set.

Is there a more exact way of doing this so it will return exactly the date range I want?*

I tried using time:

declare @startDate varchar(20) declare @endDate varchar(20) set @startDate = '01/01/2008 00:00:00' set @endDate = '04/01/2008 11:59:59' -- test what are the start and end dates select min(date),max(date) from view_Inspections  where date between @startDate and @endDate 

… but I noticed something wonky: SQL Server will ROUND the hundreth-second up by half. So I get that April 1st record (ha! April Fool’s record! grr) if I use any time later than 11:59:29. Why is that?

• (I feel sure there is. I’m new at this. Thanks for your help!)

Answer 1

There’s always the easy option:

declare @startDate varchar(20) declare @endDate varchar(20) set @startDate = '01/01/2008' set @endDate = '04/01/2008'  -- test what are the start and end dates select min(date),max(date) from view_Inspections  where date >= @startDate  and   date < @endDate