Question

My table Name is ‘information’

Structure is:

No int,
Name varchar(200),
Date varchar(30)

Records:

No  Name        Date
=====================================
1   A       25/08/2012
2   B       10/08/2012
3   C       11/08/2012
4   D       01/09/2012

My Problem is i want the No,Name,Date for between 25/08/2012 to 01/09/2012

i was tried the follwing query, but i am unable to get it.

select No,Name,Date 
from information 
where Date>='25/08/2012' and Date<='01/09/2012'

I don’t want to alter the date column(varchar) to datetime

Please help me

Answer 1

Please use the below query you do not need to alter your Date column(varchar) to datetime.

select No,Name,Date from information where CONVERT(date,[DATE],103) >=  CONVERT(date,'25/08/2012',103)  and CONVERT(date,[DATE],103) <=  CONVERT(date,'01/09/2012',103)