RE: ODBC
- Posted by Jonas Temple <jtemple at yhti.net> Sep 29, 2003
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George, In my experience with databases (mostly DB2) a date field is usually returned to the PC as a character string (i.e. "2003-09-29" so maybe in your case your example needs to be: {a,b,c,"2003-09-29",e,f,....} HTH, Jonas George Walters wrote: > > > I'm setting up to try and use Matt's ODBC and connect to MySQL for a > data > base. In reviewing what I need to do I've found a point of confusion in > how > I've been handeling dates and how MySQL handle's dates. I've been using > a > "sub sequence" in my record when using EUDB. as below. > > {a,b,c,{2003,09,29},e,f.....} > > this is quite convenient for dates to use the DateTime library (from > user > contributions) of functions I found in the archives. The problem is that > MySQL uses yyy-mm-dd format. Is anyone doing this or has a suggestion on > what happens when this is sent to MySQL. Hopefully there is a solution > or a > better way to solve this issue. > > thanks. > > george > >