What is {ts '2013-04-02 00:00:00'}?

Question

when i analyzing running T-SQL I found a query that have {ts \'2013-04-02 00:00:00\'} in where clause. i was so curious about this and tried to find the so

Answer 1

It's an ODBC literal escape sequence

ODBC defines escape sequences for date, time, and timestamp literals. The syntax of these escape sequences is as follows:

{ts 'value'}

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where we can use it?

Anywhere where a datetime value is expected. ("timestamp" is SQL Standard vernacular for what SQL Server calls datetime).