Help Writing Query (find The Entry With The Closest Time Given A Time)

Hi,

I have a table which has a few fields, one being "datetime_traded". I need to write a query which returns the row which has the closest time (down to second) given a date/time. I'm using MS SQL.

Here's what I have so far:


Code:


select * from TICK_D
where datetime_traded = (select min( abs(datediff(second,datetime_traded , Convert(datetime,'2005-05-30:09:31:09')) ) ) from TICK_D)



But I get an error - "The conversion of a char data type to a datetime data type resulted in an out-of-range datetime value.".

Does anyone know how i could do this? Thanks a lot for any help!