Question

I’m trying to query a table that has a varchar(100) “VALUE” column. This column can hold anything from a letter, a number or, in this case, a date.

The date will always be entered in the table as ‘YYYY-mm-dd’. However, when I run the following query:

select * from myTable
where VALUE =  '2009-12-11' (Date, Format 'yyyy-mm-dd')  

I receive the following error:

Invalid date supplied for myTable.VALUE.

Example of the value table:
(1,’122′)
(2,’red’)
(3,’2009-12-11′)

Any ideas as to what might be causing this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

if the data type is declared as varchar, it should just treat it like a string.
try not specifying anything about the date format, like

select * from myTable
where VALUE =  '2009-12-11'