Microsoft Query - ODBC Remedy DB

Question

Hi ALL ,
Am using Microsoft Query ODBC  to connect to the BMC Remedy from excel . Now am stuck in a situation i wish to automate it
but for that i need to provide a function that works like getdate() in sql server or sysdate in oracle .
Please let me know what Date function should be passed in the where clause to get the current date data . The Remedy DB can be either Oracle or SQL Server one am not sure .Am asking the question here as am using Microsoft query to connect to the Remedy DB
Please Experts help very near to Automating a project stuck just because am not able to pass the current date in the query :( .
SELECT "HPD:Help Desk"."Assigned Group", "HPD:Help Desk"."Assigned Support Company",
"HPD:Help Desk"."Last Modified Date"
FROM "HPD:Help Desk" "HPD:Help Desk"
WHERE ("HPD:Help Desk"."Last Modified Date" > {ts '2014-02-02 00:00:00'}) .
This Works but i don't want to provide dates manually all the time just provide the Current Date function .
Please help
Thanks
Priya

Answer 1

As I said, I am able to vouch for what works with your ODBC Driver. I did some googling, and I found a few related problems, including
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=150522
which looks very similar to your problem. Unfortunately, there is no answer.
It appears that you are using AR System ODBC Driver of which I'm entirely unfamiliar with.
The alternative would be to build the query string and inject either the date, or if you can determine whether you are talking to SQL Server or Oracle and inject the correct function.
Or does Oracle have a date data type? In such case this should work on both:
   cast(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP AS date)
As long as the ODBC driver does not get in the way, that is.
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, [email protected]