Using OPENQUERY with an Oracle database to query a date range

Question

We have an Oracle database that we access through OpenQuery for some stuff. You apparently can\'t do date comparisons directly in OpenQuery using the OleDB driver, so to get aro

Answer 1

I found a solution to the problem. By specifying a mask for the date, it will provide the proper results. Using:

to_char(to_date('01-JAN-2015','DD-MON-YYYY') ,'J') 

instead of

to_char(to_date('01-JAN-2015') ,'J') 

Gives the same result through OpenQuery and directly from Oracle.