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Re: SQL error - syntax of date value not valid

On Wed, Sep 5, 2018 at 12:44 PM, Rob Berendt <rob@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

One common technique to improve performance, and to avoid the error you're
getting, is to change
date(inEffDate) = a.effDate
to
inEffDate = cast(a.effDate) as char 8 (or some such syntax)



excellent. thank you.

I am reading that the order in which the WHERE clause is evaluated is not
guaranteed to be from left to right.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11436469/does-order-of-where-clauses-matter-in-sql

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