PerlingTheUK has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Dear Monks,
I am sorry this is slightly off topic but it has been annoying me for quite a while now. I have the following query which is restricted on a specific date: 
SELECT * FROM TBLDATA WHERE ([Event Date] LIKE 8/08/2006*');

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This query runs fine within MS Access. If I use the exact same query via DBD::ODBC from perl it fails. Can anyone help?

Cheers,
PerlingTheUK

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Re: DBD::ODBC / ACCESS-SQL incompliancy
by VSarkiss (Monsignor) on Oct 17, 2006 at 15:26 UTC

    You probably have a copy-and-paste error, because even in Access that shouldn't run: you've got an unmatched single quote at the end. You probably meant this:

    SELECT * FROM TBLDATA WHERE ([Event Date] LIKE '8/08/2006*');

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    The question then is, what data type is [Event Date]? If you're storing the date as a string, then you need to match the string format exactly. Otherwise, if you're storing it as a date, you should be able to do it with the funny Access hash-quotes:
    SELECT * FROM TBLDATA WHERE ([Event Date] = #8/08/2006#);

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    If that doesn't work you may want to try canonical ODBC date format: '2006-aug-08'. It's hard to say without knowing more about the database and the code.

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