Home Forums SQL Server 7,2000 T-SQL convert DateTime to BigInt RE: convert DateTime to BigInt

  • January 19, 2009 at 7:36 pm

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    This is absolutely the wrong thing to do. Dates should not be stored as integers.

    What are the business rules stating that you should convert the column from a DATETIME datatype to BIGINT? In other words, why do they want to do this?

    --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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