>>Script Language and Platform: TSQL/SQL Server 2000
If you apply a DatePart function to seperate the date and time, in this case, the index will not be used (because of function usage) and your query may take too much long time.

These two functions will ease your life if you assign the returned values to two variables in use those two variables in your query with syntax.

SELECT listOfColumns 

 FROM MyTable 

Where TransactionDateTime >= @StartDate And TransactionDateTime <= @endDate

Author: Anjum Niaz

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON 

GO

SET ANSI_NULLS ON 

GO



-- Returns first moment of any date, 

-- usefull function to be used 

-- to calculated before using in 

-- select statement. 

-- Highly recommended to optimize 

-- queries based on datetime 

-- conditions 



CREATE FUNCTION [GetStartDate]

        (

        @Date DateTime 

        )

RETURNS DateTime 

AS

        BEGIN

                

        RETURN Convert(DateTime, Convert(VarChar(30), @Date, 102) + '' 00:00:00.000 AM'', 121) 

        

        END



GO



CREATE FUNCTION [GetEndDate]

        (

        @Date DateTime 

        )

RETURNS DateTime 

AS

        BEGIN

                

        RETURN Convert(DateTime, Convert(VarChar(30), @Date, 102) + '' 11:59:59.998 PM'', 121) 

        

        END



GO 

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