How do I perform Date Comparison in EF query?

Question

Please help. I am trying to figure out how to use DATE or DATETIME for comparison in a linq query.

Example: If I wanted all Employee names for those who started befo

Answer 1

I'm curious to the error message saying 'Date', when you're passing a 'DateTime'. Could it be that 'StartDateColumn' is actually a 'Date', rather than a 'DateTime' in the database? That might mess up the comparison...

Answer 2

It may be due to the date in the database being nullable. Try this:

var EmployeeName =
from e in db.employee
where e.StartDateColumn.Value <= startDT 

Answer 3

You can not use .Date

If you would like to check for today you can create a datetime with no time

DateTime myDate = new DateTime(DateTime.Now.Year, DateTime.Now.Month, DateTime.Now.Day);
var e = (from mds in myEntities.Table
         where mds.CreateDateTime >= myDate
         select mds).FirstOrDefault();

Answer 4

try this:

DateTime dd = DateTime.Parse("08/13/2010 00:00:00");
var data = from n in ContributionEligibilities
           where n.ModifiedDateTime.Date >= DateTime.Parse("08/13/2010").Date
           select n; 
data.Dump("Result") ;

Answer 5

.Date did not work, but .Day did for me.

var query = from o in Payments
    where o.Order.OrderDate.Day != o.PaymentDate.Day
    orderby o.Order.OrderDate
    select new
    {
     o.Order.OrderID,
     o.Order.OrderDate,
     o.PaymentDate,      
     o.Order.FirstName,
     o.Order.LastName,
     o.Order.CustomerID
    };


query.Dump();

Answer 6

That should work. Are you sure that there isn't another part of the query that triggered the exception? I have several instances of queries of the form

var query = from e in db.MyTable
            where e.AsOfDate <= DateTime.Now.Date
            select e;

in my code.