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Hi,
I need a query that is able to properly test if one version number is higher than another. When I use the where condition:
Version > "8.0.2020.8"
The result is returning versions that are lower than this version. Is it possible to inspect the 3rd section, in this example 2020, and compare that part against another version number?
value1 = 8.0.2020.8
value2 = 8.0.730.0
When these are compared as strings, 8.0.730.0 is appearing in my result.
Thank you!
Rob
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LiHong
Using "not like" doesn't filter out the lower versions this way. I was hoping it would work.
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I don't think what you're trying to do is really going to work well in SQL, at least as a series of queries. String parsing is getting better but that isn't SQL strong point. If you must do this in the DB then I think you're going to have to do a series of queries with some programming logic mixed in perhaps with temp tables/variables to store data in between. At that point adding some UDFs would probably help a little bit.