Question

I want to make a SQL query that gets todays date and the most recent date from a date column. So if I have three records in my database that have the following dates:

• March 8, 2012
• March 2, 2012
• December 8, 2011

I want the SQL query to return all records for March 8, 2012 and March 2, 2012 (most recent date). How can I do this?

I can date today’s date using:

CONVERT( varchar(100), DATEADD( DAY, 0, getdate() ), 111)

Thank You

Edit:
Thanks everyone. I just have one more question. I have created two views:

create view with top dates
CREATE VIEW topDates AS
select DISTINCT TOP 3 replace(CONVERT(VARCHAR(20),date,111),'-','/') AS dates from     CSAResults.dbo.Details

create view dateTwo
select *
from (select ROW_NUMBER() over (order by dates desc) as srNo, dates
    from topDates)
    AS employee
    WHERE srNo=2

And now I want to select * from my DB where a column is equal to the ‘dates’ column from the view ‘dateTwo’

select buildNumber
from CSAResults.dbo.Details
where buildNumber LIKE '%Main '+ (SELECT dates FROM dateTwo) + '%'

But this returns nothing.

Thanks

Answer 1

You can do the following:

select date
from yourtable
where 
(
    date = Convert(varchar(10), getdate(), 101)
    OR
    date IN (SELECT Max(date) 
                FROM yourtable
                WHERE date!= Convert(varchar(10), getdate(), 101))
)