Question

I want to query my table against two dates and retrieve the records within them.

I declare my variables like so;

DECLARE @StartDate datetime;
DECLARE @EndDate datetime;

And set my variables like so;

SET @StartDate = 2012-08-01;
SET @EndDate = 2012-08-02;

My WHERE clause;

WHERE Date BETWEEN  @StartDate AND @EndDate

No records are displayed when the query is executed, what’s my mistake? I’ve tried adding a time to the date but that doesn’t work either.

Answer 1

Do this instead

SET @StartDate = '2012-08-01'; SET @EndDate = '2012-08-02';

or better

SET @StartDate = Convert(datetime,'2012-08-01',120); 
SET @EndDate = Convert(datetime,'2012-08-02',120);

This will return any data on 1 Aug, or anything marked as midnight on 2-Aug. It won’t return anything marked as eg: 9am on 2-Aug