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Convert to datetime from string

  • April 26, 2012 at 7:18 am

    #260415

    i have this bit of code:

    if 'TODAY' != upper ('$(runDate)')

    set @RReffectiveRunDate = convert (datetime, '$(runDate)', 120);

    i get an error cannot convert to date / or time from string

    ant ideas??

  • April 26, 2012 at 7:24 am

    #1479701

    The string "$(runDate)" is not a valid date. And that's not a function or anything, that's a literal string "$(runDate)"

    What are you trying to do?

    Also, this

    if 'TODAY' != upper ('$(runDate)')

    equates to

    if 'TODAY' != '$(RUNDATE)'

    ie, comparing two literal strings (no variables there) and those two literal strings can never be equal.

    Gail Shaw
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  • April 26, 2012 at 10:41 am

    #1479905

    Is this SQL being compiled by an outside script? If it is we'll need to know what value is in $(runDate) when it's passed to SQL when you're having a problem. If that is the actual value then Gail's post explains what's going on.

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