British English Date Problem - ISO-dates not accepted (64-bit)

Problem exists on a 64-bit SQL Server (although the same result occurs on a
32-bit platform), where we have installed MS-SQL with the British English
locale.
We are experiencing problems when passing ISO format dates (yyyy-mm-dd)
within queries. UK date format (25/12/2004) are ok but as soon as an iso
date is used '2004-12-25' an error occurs.
<For example:>
Select * from tbltest where testdate > '2003-04-16 00:00:00'
<Returns error:>
Server: Msg 296, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
The conversion of char data type to smalldatetime data type resulted in an
out-of-range smalldatetime value.
There must be something that we are missing here, as changing the users
locale to the default 'English' (US English) corrects the problem.
Thanks in advance
Ian
Have a look at these:
http://www.karaszi.com/SQLServer/info_datetime.asp Guide to Datetimes
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/colu...qldatetime.asp
Datetimes
http://www.murach.com/books/sqls/article.htm Datetime Searching
I would use the format of 'yyyymmdd' instead.
Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
"Ian" <Ian@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Problem exists on a 64-bit SQL Server (although the same result occurs on
> a
> 32-bit platform), where we have installed MS-SQL with the British English
> locale.
> We are experiencing problems when passing ISO format dates (yyyy-mm-dd)
> within queries. UK date format (25/12/2004) are ok but as soon as an iso
> date is used '2004-12-25' an error occurs.
> <For example:>
> Select * from tbltest where testdate > '2003-04-16 00:00:00'
> <Returns error:>
> Server: Msg 296, Level 16, State 3, Line 1
> The conversion of char data type to smalldatetime data type resulted in an
> out-of-range smalldatetime value.
> There must be something that we are missing here, as changing the users
> locale to the default 'English' (US English) corrects the problem.
> Thanks in advance
> Ian
|||thanks for the info...
Ian
"Andrew J. Kelly" wrote:

> Have a look at these:
>
> http://www.karaszi.com/SQLServer/info_datetime.asp Guide to Datetimes
> http://www.sqlservercentral.com/colu...qldatetime.asp
> Datetimes
> http://www.murach.com/books/sqls/article.htm Datetime Searching
>
> I would use the format of 'yyyymmdd' instead.
> --
> Andrew J. Kelly SQL MVP
>
> "Ian" <Ian@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:77EB65F8-40FE-4BE6-9058-425CFA1F36B8@.microsoft.com...
>
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