Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 01/15/07 22:46

schal (shivaramchalla@gmail.com) writes:
> where x.event_date >= {ts '1980-01-01 00:00:00'}
> versus like this:
> where x.event_date >= '1980-01-01 00:00:00'
>
> what benifit does it add to later form of writing?

In addition to Robert's post, Tibor Karaszi's article on date format gives
some more information:
http://www.karaszi.com/SQLServer/info_datetime.asp.


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