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From: Iain Lang [mailto:limpingwithbothfeet@;metro800.co.uk]
Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 10:26 AM
To: Serge Paquin; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Date Woes
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Could we see this php routine, please? Or can you post it to a newsgroup?
Yooors,
Iain Lang.
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Could we see this php routine, please? Or can you post it to a newsgroup?
Yooors,
Iain Lang.
At 18:23 15/10/02 -0400, Serge Paquin wrote:
I have written a very poor and inflexable PHP function to do this outside
the database. I have not played with doing my own functions in mySQL but
your s
As a matter of fact I am refering to ORACLE and the TO_CHAR which I find
quite usefull.
I have written a very poor and inflexable PHP function to do this outside
the database. I have not played with doing my own functions in mySQL but
your suggestion is well taken. I believe that I will atte
You cannot always control the data you are getting from external sources.
Not everyone uses the ISO standard (Including the default from Oracle and
MS SQL Server). We get data from outside sources and it would be much
eaiser to deal with if mysql had such a function.
I'm not sure if I am bla
On 15 Oct 2002, at 12:10, Serge Paquin wrote:
> I'm just plugging away at a converion project where we are
> migrating to mySQL. I am getting increasingly down on the poor
> support for importing dates into mySQL.
Why are you blaming MySQL for that problem? You could just as well
say it
Serge,
What are you used to in the database that you are migrating from?
My guess on what would be nice is something like the ORACLE to_date and to_char
functions, which work in query strings and load data statements:
http://www.llcsystems.com/FAQ/oracle_SQL/oracle_SQL_11.htm
Though if some
Serge Paquin wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm just plugging away at a converion project where we are migrating to
>mySQL. I am getting increasingly down on the poor support for importing dates into
>mySQL. In the near future could we expect a function that is basicaly the opposite
>to dat
Perl has functions to do this.
If you are writing an import, use language native functions.
For a "load data in file", just how would you expect this to work?
Serge Paquin wrote:
>Hello All,
>
> I'm just plugging away at a converion project where we are migrating to mySQL.
> I am getting
