Question : SQL Reporting - convert datetime to date only format

Hi,

I think this is a simple question but I am just not sure how to do it right, as a newbie.

All I want to do is generate a report of company employees grouped by their date of hire.

SELECT DateOfHire, FirstName, LastName from Empls
ORDER BY DateOfHire

The only problem is that the DateOfHire displays as, e.g., '01/03/2004 12:00:00' which is not what I want.  I SIMPLY WANT TO OMIT THE TIME PART but don't know quite how to say this.  I tried several variations along this line but it causes scoping errors...

SELECT     CONVERT(Varchar(10), DateOfHire, 101) AS DOHDateOnly, FirstName, LastName, State
FROM         EMPL
GROUP BY DOHDateOnly

but this gives error

"The value expression for the textbox ‘DateOfHire’ refers to the field ‘DOHDateOnly’.  Report item expressions can only refer to fields within the current data set scope or, if inside an aggregate, the specified data set scope."

Which makes sense, but I don't know HOW to say the right thing to get what I want.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Need quick response, points assigned accordingly.

Answer : SQL Reporting - convert datetime to date only format

You can only group by your least common denominator in the query itself, for instance with the following data you would have to group by date, name and state....

1/1/2005    Bob    FL
1/1/2005    Jane  TX
1/1/2005    Joe    AL

However if your data looked like this...

1/1/2005    Jane  FL
1/1/2005    Jane  FL
1/1/2005    Jane  FL

And you grouped by all three it would yield a result like this...

1/1/2005    Jane  FL

Perhaps you already understood this and i misunderstood the question, sorry if thats the case, hope this helps.

-Navicerts