Extremely urgent: append cast function in physical query

Experts...
I have a physical query generated with a condition as:
T101123.date1 = T6786678.date2
But, I need that condition to be generated as..
T101123.date1 = CAST(T678878.date2 AS SMALLDATETIME)
Any help..this is an emergency issue..

Deep wrote:
when doing your physical join use a complex join and specify the condition you want to manually.Hi..I tried that..but its taking only DATE for cast....not smalldatetime ..
I tested i for varchar..its taking only CHAR.
Is there any way that it supports smalldateime?

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¿Any clue?¿¿¿Over complication???
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