Question

Please give me right answer for this question

This is the table time_names and its structure:

time_id    time_name
-------    ----------
  1        5:00 AM
  2        5:15 AM
  3        5:30 AM
  4        5:45 AM
  5        6:00 AM
  6        6:15 AM
 ...       .....
 ...       .....
 70        10:15 PM
 71        10:30 PM
 72        10:45 PM
 73        11:00 PM
 74        11:15 PM
 75        11:30 PM
 76        11:45 PM

time_id is INT, time_name is varchar datatype.

Here I want show only 8:30 AM to 11:00 PM between all data

Please give me any query

Answer 1

Since you’re on SQL Server 2008, you can simply cast the time_name to a TIME datatype:

SELECT time_id, time_name
FROM dbo.time_names
WHERE CAST(time_name AS TIME) BETWEEN '08:30 AM' AND '11:00 PM' 

But seriously: if you store a time value – WHY aren’t you using the appropriate TIME datatype for it??