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MS ACCESS: sql query not showing results expected [closed]

I'm having a little problem. In my Access DB, I have a table named customers. In this table I have a field DateEntered that is set to short text data type. I am trying to run a query to pull all ...
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Retrieving queries when the hour of starting timestamp is less than the hour of ending timestamp

I have a CTE-based query in which I retrieve hourly intervals between two given timestamps. My query works as following: Getting start and end datetimes (let's say 07-13-2011 10:21:09 and 07-31-2011 ...
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SQL Server dates - can I get date and hour?

In SQL Server, can I do the equivalent of to_char(date_field, 'YYYY-MM-DD:HH24') in Oracle to get 2012-01-30:23?
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Decode query truncates a date

I am not sure if I am looking at this problem the right way: I have a query like this on an Oracle database SELECT DECODE( TO_CHAR(MIN(DATE), 'YYYYMMDD') , '' , NULL ...
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Compare a date and a timestamp with time zone with now() in the same query?

I have multiple database servers I'm querying with a query that compares an expiration column with now(). The problem is that one of the servers' expiration column is a timestamp with time zone, and ...
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Storing date as integer (numeric), what are the advantages

Question 1 I am working with a system where date is stored as integer (actual numeric(8,0)) and I have noticed that other systems also store date as int such as cisco in this thread. Example ...