You're trying to perform a string comparison of the string '08/%/2015' with a date field, which is a number. This absolutely will not work in Microsoft SQL and I suspect (though can't test) that it won't work in Oracle either.

A better solution is: SELECT ... WHERE DATE >= $startdate AND DATE <= $enddate

UPDATE: Yeah, dunno who down-voted me, but there are some assumptions I made:

  • OP is using Oracle and checking monthly stats, so probably a professional environment
  • It then holds that OP probably has a DBA maintaining the DB
  • Following on from that, it is likely that the DB was properly designed / built
  • Given WHERE DATE LIKE ? won't work in Oracle, OPs statement about running the exact same SQL is blatantly untrue

    • In reply to Re: Problem passing date to SQL by SimonPratt
    in thread Problem passing date to SQL by JoeTheProgrammer

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