Compare DATETIME and DATE ignoring time portion

Question

I have two tables where column [date] is type of DATETIME2(0).

I have to compare two records only by theirs Date parts (day+month+year), di

Answer 1

Though I upvoted the answer marked as correct. I wanted to touch on a few things for anyone stumbling upon this.

In general, if you're filtering specifically on Date values alone. Microsoft recommends using the language neutral format of ymd or y-m-d.

Note that the form '2007-02-12' is considered language-neutral only for the data types DATE, DATETIME2, and DATETIMEOFFSET.

To do a date comparison using the aforementioned approach is simple. Consider the following, contrived example.

--112 is ISO format 'YYYYMMDD'
declare @filterDate char(8) = CONVERT(char(8), GETDATE(), 112)

select 
    * 
from 
    Sales.Orders
where
    CONVERT(char(8), OrderDate, 112) = @filterDate

In a perfect world, performing any manipulation to the filtered column should be avoided because this can prevent SQL Server from using indexes efficiently. That said, if the data you're storing is only ever concerned with the date and not time, consider storing as DATETIME with midnight as the time. Because:

When SQL Server converts the literal to the filtered column’s type, it assumes midnight when a time part isn’t indicated. If you want such a filter to return all rows from the specified date, you need to ensure that you store all values with midnight as the time.

Thus, assuming you are only concerned with date, and store your data as such. The above query can be simplified to:

--112 is ISO format 'YYYYMMDD'
declare @filterDate char(8) = CONVERT(char(8), GETDATE(), 112)

select 
    * 
from 
    Sales.Orders
where
    OrderDate = @filterDate