I encountered this error today using DBI to update a SQL Server 2000 database using DBD::ODBC.

The problem code is as follows: 

    my $sql = q{select * from accountaction where action_date > ?};
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
    $sth->execute('01-01-2006');
    $sth->finish;

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The same code, but without the bound parameter worked correctly: 
    my $sql = q{select * from accountaction where action_date > '01-01
+-2006'};
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
    $sth->execute();
    $sth->finish;

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The issue was that DBD::ODBC did not like the MM-DD-YYYY date format.
Changing it to the following fixed the error for me: 
    my $sql = q{select * from accountaction where action_date > ?};
    my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
    $sth->execute('2006-01-01');
    $sth->finish;

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This likely occurs because SQL Server can have different date formats, e.g. DD-MM-YYYY for some locales. So to be safe it only allow the YYYY-MM-DD format.

This response is being added to a somewhat old node because it is the only relevant one I found using Super Search, and I would like to save future searchers some trouble.

In reply to Re: Invalid character value for cast specification by imp
in thread Invalid character value for cast specification by Kanishka

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