First off, I'm a Paradox newbie.
Secondly, I'm querying a database of a third-party software package and cannot change the schema.
I have two fields simply named "Date" and "Time" that I'd like to query as a DateTime (from my MS SQL experience).
Is this possible?
I've tried several queries and, when the command is valid, I get "Data type mismatch in criteria expression."
Also, this would be from a Paradox database from about 1999-2000 if that makes any difference.
EDIT: Even a simple string concatenation of the fields would a great help because I could handle that in code.
EDIT: In response to a.i.breveleri's answer. I get this message:
ERROR [42000] [Microsoft][ODBC Paradox Driver] Syntax error (missing operator) in query expression 'CAST(m.DateComplete AS TIMESTAMP) - CAST([1/1/3000] AS TIMESTAMP) + CAST(m.TimeComplete AS TIMESTAMP)'.
When I run this query:
select distinct
CAST(m.DateComplete AS TIMESTAMP) -
CAST("1/1/3000" AS TIMESTAMP) +
CAST(m.TimeComplete AS TIMESTAMP)
from Mean m
SELECT CAST(f.DateColumn AS VARCHAR(20)) + ' ' + CAST(f.TimeColumn AS VARCHAR(20))
FROM Foo f
That gives you the concatenated string.
SELECT CAST(CAST(f.DateColumn AS VARCHAR(20)) + ' ' + CAST(f.TimeColumn AS VARCHAR(20)) AS TIMESTAMP) As FooTime
FROM Foo f
gives you the combined time.