Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string

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Hi,
i want to compare datetime with

GETUTCDATE()

i have a date field and i have a datetime field

i want to take the date field and the time from the datetime field to compare them but i'm getting the error described in the question

What I have tried:

<pre>declare @date date = '2021-08-07' select @date  select case when (cast (@date as nvarchar) + ' ' +  (select cast(convert(time(7),'2021-08-07 09:00:00.000') as nvarchar))) <GETUTCDATE() then 1 else 0 end

Posted 8-Aug-21 9:08am

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Updated 8-Aug-21 18:08pm

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Anand RB 2021 · Answer 1 · 2021-08-08T18:08:00

Solution 1

select case when CAST((cast (@date as nvarchar) + ' ' +  (select cast(convert(time(7),'2021-08-07 09:00:00.000') as nvarchar))) AS DATE) <GETUTCDATE() then 1 else 0 end

Try the above Code. It Works. You have to convert varchar to date field again to compare with another date field.

Posted 8-Aug-21 18:08pm

Anand RB 2021

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Member 14800672 10-Aug-21 4:24am

Hi Anand,
i want to compare dateTime to dateTime and not date to DateTime
so i need the value before get< getutcdate() to be a dateTime and not a date