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  • July 8, 2012 at 6:11 pm

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    CELKO (7/8/2012)

    I like the MySQL convention of using double zeroes for months and years, That is 'yyyy-mm-00' for a month within a year and 'yyyy-00-00' for the whole year. The advantage is that it will sort with the ISO-8601 data format required by Standard SQL. Let's re-do yo0ur table and assume it is loaded with the right data types, etc.

    Since that would require storing temporal data as character based data, I have to ask why would you do that? And, no... not trying to be the smart guy here. I'd really like to know, Joe.

    --Jeff Moden

    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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