Yes Paul, that's what I meant.
See, even confusing myself now ;-)
The field is datetime as the time is used in other functions...
Would I be better using 2 separate fields?
Jeff
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul DuBois" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Jeff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "MySQL List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 8:51 AM
Subject: Re: Syntax confusion
> At 8:40 +1000 3/6/03, Jeff wrote:
> >Hi, perform the following query
> >
> >SELECT BA_ID, BA_DATE
> >FROM BA
> >WHERE SUBSTRING(BA_ID,1,3) = 'TSV'
> >
> >and get
> >
> >'TSV12345-00001','2003-02-25 00:00:00'
> >'TSV12345-00002','2003-02-25 00:00:00'
> >'TSV14818-00003','2003-02-19 00:00:00'
> >'TSV14836-00015','2003-02-27 00:00:00'
> >'TSV14841-00009','2003-02-28 00:00:00'
> >
> >which is OK. When I only want data from 2/25/2003 and query with
> >
> >SELECT BA_ID, BA_DATE
> >FROM BA
> >WHERE SUBSTRING(BA_ID,1,3) = 'TSV'
> >AND BA_DATE = '2003-25-2'
> >
> >I get 0 rows returned....
>
> Not surprising, since there is no month 25! :-)
>
> Do you mean '2003-02-25'?
>
> By the way, do all your BA_DATE values have 00:00:00 in the time
> part? If so, you may want to convert the column to DATE. If not,
> then if you want to match values that occur anywhere is a given
> date, a comparison like you're doing won't work.
>
> >
> >The book hinted at using DATE_FORMAT which I did
> >
> >SELECT BA_ID, BA_DATE
> >FROM BA
> >WHERE SUBSTRING(BA_ID,1,3) = 'TSV'
> >AND BA_DATE = DATE_FORMAT('2003-25-2', '%y-%d-%m')
> >
> >But still 0 rows... D'OH... What am I missing here? Thanks for any
> >help... I would hate to have to tell the boss we're going back to
> >VB-ADO-MSAccess ;-)
> >
> >Jeff
>
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