Perhaps you only need to consider the year and month? select count(*) as monthOpenTotal from tbl_car where year(dateRaised) = year(getdate()) and month(dateRaised) = month(getdate())
2009/2/23 Gavin Baumanis <beauecli...@gmail.com>: > > Hi Everyone, > > Just a quick question to ask how you all create your date ranges? > For example I have a requirement to list all records where a datefield > is between the first and las day of THIS month. > > I use the following, but just wanted some verification, I suppose, > that there wasn't a better way to do it. > (Ms-Sql Server 2005) > > SET DATEFORMAT ymd > DECLARE @today DATETIME > > SET @today = CONVERT(CHAR(8), GETDATE(), 112) > > Select > count(*) as monthOpenTotal > from > tbl_car > where > dateRaised between > (SELECT DATEADD(DAY, > -DATEPART(DAY, @today) + 1, @today)) > and (SELECT DATEADD(DAY, > -DATEPART(DAY, @today), DATEADD(MONTH, > 1, @today)+ ' 23:59:59')) > > > Thanks for any ideas you might have. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---