im doing an OLE DB load from a table with time date field stored as a nvarchar , this is the field that im using to compare with my lastload variable for an incremental load. when the comparison is run i get an "The conversion of a nvarchar data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range value." error i would normally add a SET DATEFORMAT DMY to the sql but with inclusion of a parameter i get a parse error. Im a bit stuck i only want to pull in only the records since the last load but i need to cast the comparison which is thowing the error?