Date comparison problem

[puREp3s+]

Hi

I have a table that contains information that has start dates and end
dates. They are stored in short date format.

I have built a web page that initially returned all the information. I
then want to return information spcific to todays date, where I used

dim todDate
todDate = now

then I did

shTodDate = FormatDateTime(todDate, 2)

which returned the date to a web page that was in the same format as
what was in the access table.

SELECT * from Events WHERE stDate = # ' & shTodDate & ' #;"

This was fine beacuse it returned all events that started on that day.
This doesn't help though because some events last a few days, so I
tried the following

SELECT * FROM Events WHERE stDate >=#'&shTodDate&'# AND
endDate<=#'&shTodDate&'#;

This still only returned events that started on the current day.

Does anyone know how I can use <= or >= when comparing dates?

Thanks
puREp3s+

[Erland Sommarskog]

puREp3s+ (co*****@btinternet.com) writes:

SELECT * FROM Events WHERE stDate >=#'&shTodDate&'# AND
endDate<=#'&shTodDate&'#;

This still only returned events that started on the current day.

Does anyone know how I can use <= or >= when comparing dates?

Maybe the folks over in comp.datatabases.ms-access knows? It seems
that you are using Access, from the syntax. At least it is not MS
SQL Server.
--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, so****@algonet.se

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[Rich Dillon]

It looks like you have your comparison operators backwards. In TSQL syntax,
this is what you would do to get any events in progress at this moment:

DECLARE @t DATETIME
SET @t = CURRENT_TIMESTAMP

SELECT *
FROM Events
WHERE stDate <= @t AND endDate >= @t;

.... or, if the end date may be NULL, then:

SELECT *
FROM Events
WHERE stDate <= @t AND (endDate >= @t OR endDate IS NULL);

Hope that helps,
Rich

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Hi

I have a table that contains information that has start dates and end
dates. They are stored in short date format.

I have built a web page that initially returned all the information. I
then want to return information spcific to todays date, where I used

dim todDate
todDate = now

then I did

shTodDate = FormatDateTime(todDate, 2)

which returned the date to a web page that was in the same format as
what was in the access table.

SELECT * from Events WHERE stDate = # ' & shTodDate & ' #;"

This was fine beacuse it returned all events that started on that day.
This doesn't help though because some events last a few days, so I
tried the following

SELECT * FROM Events WHERE stDate >=#'&shTodDate&'# AND
endDate<=#'&shTodDate&'#;

This still only returned events that started on the current day.

Does anyone know how I can use <= or >= when comparing dates?

Thanks
puREp3s+