The TO_DATE function, for some reason, does not cast to DATE data-type. Instead, it is just an alias for TIMESTAMP_FORMAT. Also, if the host variable isn't a character data type, you have to wrap the ...

description Reference for the CAST and CONVERT Transact-SQL functions. These functions convert expressions from one data type to another.

exec dbms_sqltune.drop_sql_profile('my_sql_profile',TRUE); exec dbms_sqltune.drop_sql_profile('my_old_sql_profile',TRUE); exec dbms_sqltune.drop_sql_profile('my_sql ...

The “Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character string” error in SQL Server appears when SQL Server cannot interpret a text value as a ...

It’s surprisingly easy to stop query folding happening in Power Query by changing the data type of a column. This is mentioned in the docs here, and it’s something several people have blogged about ...