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 Invalid length parameter passed to the substring function. .

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Posted - 2006-12-04 : 08:15:29
raju writes "hai i am using sustring function and charindex function to split a string this query working fine but when i amtrying to get values based on the date it throughing an error saying that "Invalid length parameter passed to the substring function. ..." can u please suggest me on this problem?"

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Posted - 2006-12-04 : 08:23:44
convert datetimevalue to varchar first.


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Posted - 2006-12-04 : 08:24:33
Probably passing a negative length to the substring.
Try selecting the min start and length rather than running the substring.

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