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Old 02-29-2008, 07:28 PM
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Default Creating dates from table columns

Hi, i have a table with 3 ints that are used to store dates. The
datetime data type is not used because this data comes from an old
AS400 server.

I need to be able to use those 3 columns to build dates within a query
and be able to use them to compare themselves to other dates

Let's say the table has the following values:

myday mymonth myyear
23 5 2006

and suppose i want to do a query that displays all rows with date
greater than '20060520'

Here is the query i have tried:

select
cast(myday as varchar(2))+'/'+cast(mymonth as
varchar(2))+'/'+cast(myyear as varchar(4))
from mytable

That query returns the string '23/5/2006' yet i can't use it to compare
it with '20060520'

Is there a way i can do this in a simple query?
This is on sql server 2000

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