Adding a value to a 'datetime' column caused overflow.

Hi,
When I use dateadd function to a table containing around 10000 values,
it gave the following msg. Adding a value to a 'datetime' column caused
overflow. What does it mean?
Thanks,
MikeThanks a lot! This is exactly the problem!
Thanks,
Mike
Gert-Jan Strik wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Note that when you use dateadd, the second parameter should be a number
> representing the number of ... (in your case days) that should be added.
> If Def_Date is a float "representing" a date, then this value is likely
> to be too high. If it exceeds 2936549 you will get an out or range error
> (or similar error). If it represents a date, you should cast it to a
> datetime.
> Gert-Jan
>
> Michael wrote:|||You are exceeding the valid datetime range differs if you use datetime
or smalldateimte, which command did you use ? could you please post the
commandtext you are using ? What is the datatype of you are doing the
dateadd operation.
HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer.
http://www.sqlserver2005.de
--|||Thanks for your reply.
I am using float type date to convert to a datetime. Please see the
following codes.
select dateadd(dd, Def_Date, '1/1/1960') from one;
Thanks,
Mike
Jens wrote:
> You are exceeding the valid datetime range differs if you use datetime
> or smalldateimte, which command did you use ? could you please post the
> commandtext you are using ? What is the datatype of you are doing the
> dateadd operation.
> HTH, Jens K. Suessmeyer.
> --
> http://www.sqlserver2005.de
> --|||Note that when you use dateadd, the second parameter should be a number
representing the number of ... (in your case days) that should be added.
If Def_Date is a float "representing" a date, then this value is likely
to be too high. If it exceeds 2936549 you will get an out or range error
(or similar error). If it represents a date, you should cast it to a
datetime.
Gert-Jan
Michael wrote:[vbcol=seagreen]
> Thanks for your reply.
> I am using float type date to convert to a datetime. Please see the
> following codes.
> select dateadd(dd, Def_Date, '1/1/1960') from one;
> Thanks,
> Mike
> Jens wrote: