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Why are you using nvarchar instead of DateTime?
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Yes, kinda predictable.
It's a bad idea to do so, and should be fixed. The time you are saving is a culture-specific format, it is a text, something the computer does not calculate with.
A DateTime in a computer is a floating point. The integer-part counts the days passed since the epoch (start of counting of days, often 1/1/1900), the decimal part represents the time, in ticks. They are not two separate facts - and should be modelled as a single field, of the DateTime-datatype. The computer can easily calculate with those.
Breaking the date and time into separate fields is as usefull as using a separate field for the day, month, year, hour, minute and second. If they represent a single atomic fact, than that is how it should be modelled.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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It's interesting that the Date type in Oracle while handled as a single entity but is stored internally as seven bytes. One byte each for year, month, day, hour minute, second and fraction of a second.
It's a space waster, but oh so fast to calculate with.
Timestamp on the other hand is stored as a floating point to save space.
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Internally, yes, if the engine expects it. But still no way to model a database.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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If date and time should not be keep separate, why did MS create data formats DATE and TIME? 
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Because there are times when you do need to store just a date or just a time. The OP's example just isn't one of them. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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You could try and merge DATE_CREATED and TIME_CREATED to get a DATETIME value then you could use between.
Something like (most likely will not work as written):
(Date_Created + Time_Created) BETWEEN @startdatetime AND @enddatetime
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As others have said, the time should be part of the DATE_CREATED column. However, it's still possible to get what you need:
WHERE
(DATE_CREATED = '20140902' And Convert(time, TIME_CREATED) >= '05:00:00')
Or
(DATE_CREATED = '20140903' And Convert(time, TIME_CREATED) <= '05:00:00')
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Thank you so much for the help, my query is working fine now.
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That is great!
I get started down a path and do not think outside of that. 
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convert function is not working in access
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select * from Staging.[dbo].AD where DATE_CREATED between '2013-03-08 05:00:00' and '2013-03-09 05:00:00'
-- I hope i will help u...
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I need to send an email from a stored procedure, I found I use msdb.sp_send_dbmail, can someone give a suggestion on how I can do it except calling this built-procedure in sql server? Thanks.
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I use sp_send_dbmail - I can't think of any other methods provided by sql server which will do this.
For security reasons I have the stored procedure, which runs this, within the msdb database as certain permissions, which I am unwilling to give to users, are needed to run this stored procedure.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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thank you very much for your reply.
Can you tell me what the best practice is for notifying an developer if an error occurred in a stored procedure?
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Just throw the exception.
There is no reason, I can think of, that you should need to catch an exception from a stored procedure.
Throwing the exception will allow the developer to have an error message and pursue fixing the error.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Member 1284721 wrote: Can you tell me what the best practice is for notifying an developer if an error occurred in a stored procedure?
What happens if the stored proc doesn't run at all?
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The sproc is there to provide the functionality.
If it is there, and works, and you need such, why ask for "any" solution that excludes it? Why "except"?
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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You can always have a .NET program run the procedure taking data from it and email from the .NET program.
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Hi,
I need your advise please..
here is the detail:::
The employee contract can be definite (with expiry date) or indefinite (open without expiry date).
The employee contract will always have date of join
if the contract is definite then employee will have 30 days every year where the year is the period between the date of join and +365 days and the renewal is the same (from the renewal date and +365)
if the contract is indefinite then employee will have 30 days every year where the year is the period between the date of join it's every 365 days so the contract has not renewal but the employee will have 30 days annually.
for example, if indefinite and date of join is 1 April 2010 then every period from 1 April until 30 March will have 30 days for the employee
I want to calculate the leaves for the employee without having to keep a renew table so it will be calculated based on the leave date and the first date of join.
hope I explained it well...
Technology News @ www.JassimRahma.com
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so the data will be just one leave table with from and to indicating the leave period for every leave and the result will be
1 April - 31 March - [Total Taken Leaves] - [Total Remaining Leaves]
Technology News @ www.JassimRahma.com
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I have HTML content in string variable (from to ) within store procedure. The html contains one table with 'n' number of rows and columns. Its my final output which i will publish in mail.
My need is : I want to workout on last column in this HTML, and highlight background with RED color whichever SLA missed (As my last column having date and want to highlight entries less than today's date)
How to achieve this. Please help.
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