Help Using MAX()

Question

I am trying to run this statement
Select convert(varchar(10), Max(salesCallDate), 101)
From database
but this throws an error of Syntax error converting the varchar value 12/15/201 to a column of data type int

Answer 1

Are you sure your date is '12/15/201' or is it '12/15/2014' ?
Above query should work fine and you are not converting it to INT BTW.
-Vaibhav Chaudhari
Yes it should be 12/15/2014, typo.
Actually I am mistaken the error is produced on the JOIN statement
Select
a.salesCallDate,
a.CallerName,
b.PersonName,
b.PersonAddress,
b.PersonZip
from internalDB a
Inner join externalDB b
On a.SalesCallDate = Convert(varchar(10), MAX(salescalldate),101)
Group by a.salescalldate, a.callername, b.personname, b.personaddress, b.personzip
why are you converting date to varchar here? Provided SalesCallDate is of datetime type what you need is just this
Inner join externalDB b
On a.SalesCallDate >= MAX(salescalldate)
AND a.SalesCallDate < DATEADD(dd,1,MAX(salescalldate))
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