MS SQL Date Only Without Time

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Hello All,

I\'ve had some confusion for quite some time with essentially flooring a DateTime SQL type using T-SQL. Essentially, I want to take a

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FWIW, I've been doing the same thing as you for years

CAST(CONVERT(VARCHAR, [tstamp], 102) AS DATETIME) = @dateParam 

Seems to me like this is one of the better ways to strip off time in terms of flexibility, speed and readabily. (sorry). Some UDF functions as suggested can be useful, but UDFs can be slow with larger result sets.