SQL Count for each date

Question

I have the following need

I have a logging table which logs som leads generated each day.

Now I need to pull a report over the amount of leads for each day over

Answer 1

When you cast a DateTime to an int it "truncates" at noon, you might want to strip the day out like so

cast(DATEADD(DAY, DATEDIFF(DAY, 0, created_date), 0) as int) as DayBucket