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Anonymous
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9 years ago
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Date Relationship Not Working

I have used the date table multiple times but I am getting stuck with one data set.  I have double checked the date formats but nothing seems to work.  What I want is for the dates from one table to ...
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    Anonymous
    9 years ago

    If the data type of the OPEN_TIME column is date/time, it will never match a date in your date table even if the format is date. There are more digits there that you've simply hidden with the formatting. The data types should match. If you need to preserve the time value from OPEN_TIME make a new column that takes only the date value from OPEN_TIME and use that new column in the date table relationship.

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Anonymous
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9 years ago

If the data type of the OPEN_TIME column is date/time, it will never match a date in your date table even if the format is date. There are more digits there that you've simply hidden with the formatting. The data types should match. If you need to preserve the time value from OPEN_TIME make a new column that takes only the date value from OPEN_TIME and use that new column in the date table relationship.