T-SQL Between Dates Confusion

Question

I am working with T-SQL in SQL Server 2000 and I have a table TRANSACTIONS which has a date column TRANDATE defined as DateTime, among many other c

Answer 1

What would be your expected result if I would do this

Insert "12/31/2010" into your datetime column?

Exactly: 12-31-2010 00:00:00

So why would you expect it to be different as argument for a query?