MIN/MAX not working on column pushed from SQL

Question

I am querying data from the SQL Server, and my SELECT includes CONVERT(date,[column]) .

The query runs just fine, and I pass it into a refreshable Excel workbook worksheet called 'Data'. Refreshing the workbook works just fine as well.

The issue is, on a separate 'Summary' worksheet within the same workbook, I want to run =MIN(Data!A:A) (let's just say the date column is in A:A). Thus, my goal is to retrieve the minimum/earliest date in that column. The result is always 0. I have tried formatting the Data column A:A as Date as well as the cell holding the MIN function. No matter what I do, the result seems to always be 0.

Could it be an issue with my query passing the column into Excel in an incompatible way?

Answer 1

cast(convert(char(11), YourDateFieldHere, 113) as datetime) will do the job. You will want to create a new connection in a new tab to see your results.