|  | Posted by Gert-Jan Strik on 06/27/07 18:26 
No there isn't.
 But there are solutions. You can read more at
 http://groups.google.nl/group/microsoft.public.sqlserver.programming/browse_thread/thread/46512c2691da4607/6743f4aea485c6d1
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 HTH,
 Gert-Jan
 
 
 "jshunter@waikato.ac.nz" wrote:
 >
 > Does anyone know of a built-in function to return the maximum possible
 > value of a given datatype? I have to return the biggest value for a
 > smalldatetime or datetime in a view if the field is null, but can't
 > find such a function. The closest I've come is:
 >
 > select datalength(cast(getdate() as smalldatetime))
 >
 > ...but that only return the number of bytes, not the value itself,
 > which is '6-6-2079 11:59'
 >
 > I know I could create my own lookup table and function, but I was
 > hoping that Transact-SQL would have a built-in solution
 >
 > --John Hunter
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