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Posted on by adw5szz 34

I'm trying to compare dates with a SSMS database to the current date to see if they are less than or equal the current date.

My query is Date le formatDateTime(utcNow(),'yyyy-MM-dd'), and always returns empty but they are many dates that should be returned.

ive tried putting '' around formatDateTime

formatDateTime does return the todays date so im not sure what the issue is

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    Agnius Bartninkas Most Valuable Professional on at

    Are you sure you are doing this in Power Automate Desktop? Those expressions are used in cloud flows and not desktop flows.

     

    If you are using cloud flows, the correct forum to post your question is here: https://powerusers.microsoft.com/t5/Building-Flows/bd-p/BuildingFlows

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