Re: Problem with using BETWEEN for date range...

Yes but hang on a minute, what if you don't want a time, holding the time
component is misleading that indicates the data value may contain a time
between 00:00:00 and 23:59:59, being 00:00:00 means the trade was done at
midnight which may well not be true, consider settment date where the trade
needs to settle on a particular day, not by midnight but sometime on that
day.

In SQL Server because we don't have a DATE data type we need to store dates
as an integer in the form yyyymmdd which is unfortunate but the reality.

You might also want to learn ISO standards and use 'yyyy--mm-dd' for
date values.

Rich coming from the guy who doesn't use the standard format himself.

2006-05-03 00:00:00.000 should be written 2006-05-03T00:00:00.000

OR

20060503 if you are only specifying the date.

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"--CELKO--" <jcelko212@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So once again - can someone explain why this query returns no records
[sic] when begindate and enddate are specified as 5/3/2006 and there is
clearly trade data with that tradetime? <<

Once again, because there is a DATETIME column which has a time on it.
If you do not give the time, it defautls to 00:00:00.000 Hrs. This is
a single point in time. What you wanted to use was

WHERE tradedate BETWEEN '2006-05-03 00:00:00.000' AND '2006-05-03
23:59:59.99'

You might also want to learn ISO standards and use 'yyyy--mm-dd' for
date values.

And do not forget to add constraints to temporal columns in your base
tables.



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