Thanks Svein.  Would you suggest I double COALESCE it?  I think it will be an overkill and I might end up with an ANSI datetime again.  Or should I not COALESCE it at all?  I wanted a blank date time in case of a NULL for tBillDt and if there is a date in tBillDt I need it for date calculation later on as post processing from the front ends.

Please advise.

Kind regards
Bhavbhuti

 

By the way, Bhavbhuti,

CAST(COALESCE(tPB.dBillDt, '') AS TIMESTAMP) AS tDocDt

will fail if tPB.dBillDt is null since '' cannot be converted to a timestamp (it is neither a timestamp nor null).

Set

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