"IS NOT NULL" is not working

We have data in datetime field and in the simple select statement where
clause "where dateofbusiness is not null" no data is returned. This
works in our other databases. This is a simple select with no
aggregation functions such as count(*) and no group bys. No joins.
We checked for table corruption and rebuilt the table and indexes.
I'm completely at a loss.
Anybody run into this?Run the following and post the results:
select
dateofbusiness
, count (*)
from
MyTable
group by
dateofbusiness
Tom
----
Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
SQL Server MVP
Columnist, SQL Server Professional
Toronto, ON Canada
www.pinnaclepublishing.com
.
"Ken" <kshapley@.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1104271245.345995.62690@.f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
We have data in datetime field and in the simple select statement where
clause "where dateofbusiness is not null" no data is returned. This
works in our other databases. This is a simple select with no
aggregation functions such as count(*) and no group bys. No joins.
We checked for table corruption and rebuilt the table and indexes.
I'm completely at a loss.
Anybody run into this?|||Try,
where ISDATE(dateofbusiness) <> 0
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2003-04-28 00:00:00.000 18
2003-05-06 00:00:00.000 17
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2003-05-13 00:00:00.000 80
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2003-08-28 00:00:00.000 25
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2003-09-19 00:00:00.000 365
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2003-09-22 00:00:00.000 334
2003-09-23 00:00:00.000 347
2003-09-24 00:00:00.000 358
2003-09-25 00:00:00.000 390
2003-09-26 00:00:00.000 388
2003-09-27 00:00:00.000 354
2003-09-28 00:00:00.000 340
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2003-09-30 00:00:00.000 367
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2003-12-27 00:00:00.000 93059
2003-12-28 00:00:00.000 87425
2003-12-29 00:00:00.000 96371
2003-12-30 00:00:00.000 97959
2003-12-31 00:00:00.000 81578
2004-02-01 00:00:00.000 384
2004-02-06 00:00:00.000 26
2004-02-12 00:00:00.000 52
2004-02-17 00:00:00.000 22
2004-02-19 00:00:00.000 17
2004-02-20 00:00:00.000 50
2004-02-21 00:00:00.000 107
2004-02-23 00:00:00.000 90
2004-02-24 00:00:00.000 22
2004-02-27 00:00:00.000 56
2004-03-01 00:00:00.000 56
2004-03-02 00:00:00.000 22
2004-03-05 00:00:00.000 107
2004-03-08 00:00:00.000 22
2004-03-11 00:00:00.000 501
2004-04-22 00:00:00.000 12
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2004-04-30 00:00:00.000 48
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2004-05-04 00:00:00.000 19
2004-05-07 00:00:00.000 22
2004-05-10 00:00:00.000 22
2004-05-13 00:00:00.000 1998
2004-05-26 00:00:00.000 15
2004-05-28 00:00:00.000 5
2004-06-01 00:00:00.000 52
2004-06-02 00:00:00.000 44
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2004-06-17 00:00:00.000 698
2004-06-19 00:00:00.000 2
2004-06-20 00:00:00.000 640
2004-06-21 00:00:00.000 692
2004-06-22 00:00:00.000 326
2004-06-23 00:00:00.000 378
2004-06-24 00:00:00.000 400
2004-06-25 00:00:00.000 348
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2004-06-29 00:00:00.000 25
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2004-07-15 00:00:00.000 467
2004-07-19 00:00:00.000 432
2004-07-23 00:00:00.000 427
2004-07-27 00:00:00.000 21
2004-08-08 00:00:00.000 392|||Also try,
"where convert(char(10),dateofbusiness,120) is not null"
and post results,
Jon
Message posted via http://www.droptable.com|||OK, so there are none that are not null. Could you please post the DDL for
your table and the exact query you ran?
Tom
----
Thomas A. Moreau, BSc, PhD, MCSE, MCDBA
SQL Server MVP
Columnist, SQL Server Professional
Toronto, ON Canada
www.pinnaclepublishing.com
.
"Ken" <kshapley@.sbcglobal.net> wrote in message
news:1104272808.874749.162530@.z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
2003-03-25 00:00:00.000 15
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2003-07-13 00:00:00.000 10871
2003-07-14 00:00:00.000 11395
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2003-09-22 00:00:00.000 334
2003-09-23 00:00:00.000 347
2003-09-24 00:00:00.000 358
2003-09-25 00:00:00.000 390
2003-09-26 00:00:00.000 388
2003-09-27 00:00:00.000 354
2003-09-28 00:00:00.000 340
2003-09-29 00:00:00.000 334
2003-09-30 00:00:00.000 367
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2003-12-18 00:00:00.000 99609
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2003-12-20 00:00:00.000 98621
2003-12-21 00:00:00.000 85470
2003-12-22 00:00:00.000 102115
2003-12-23 00:00:00.000 103167
2003-12-24 00:00:00.000 50463
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2004-02-23 00:00:00.000 90
2004-02-24 00:00:00.000 22
2004-02-27 00:00:00.000 56
2004-03-01 00:00:00.000 56
2004-03-02 00:00:00.000 22
2004-03-05 00:00:00.000 107
2004-03-08 00:00:00.000 22
2004-03-11 00:00:00.000 501
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2004-05-10 00:00:00.000 22
2004-05-13 00:00:00.000 1998
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2004-05-28 00:00:00.000 5
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2004-06-02 00:00:00.000 44
2004-06-03 00:00:00.000 31
2004-06-04 00:00:00.000 18
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2004-06-16 00:00:00.000 672
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2004-06-23 00:00:00.000 378
2004-06-24 00:00:00.000 400
2004-06-25 00:00:00.000 348
2004-06-26 00:00:00.000 345
2004-06-29 00:00:00.000 25
2004-06-30 00:00:00.000 82
2004-07-01 00:00:00.000 23
2004-07-08 00:00:00.000 21
2004-07-12 00:00:00.000 21
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2004-08-08 00:00:00.000 392|||And to emphasize futher the same statement with the count(*) function
returned no results. And without the count function and group by it
will return results, however, when keying in on an additional field
such as storeid like "where storeid = 34 and DateofBusiness is not
null" nothing returns. If you filter by store id, i see dateofbusiness
had values in it?
set transaction isolation level read uncommitted
select
dateofbusiness,
count (*)
from
Temp_HstSalesByInterval
where dateofbusiness is not null
group by
dateofbusiness|||John we have already done this as a hotfix to our database,
"rtrim(dateofbusiness) is not null" works, too. However we have over
2000 databases that do not have the hot fix, and other code affecting
the table.
SQL is not doing what its supposed to be doing and I'm looking for an
answer. I don't usually post until....|||Ken,
Maybe we are wrong about the zeros. But threw that out for you,
Jon
Message posted via http://www.droptable.com|||> Why or how did you manage to write all zeros on a date/time field? In SQL
there is no such thing as 00:00:00?
Midnight is not a valid time?