 | | | Trigger | Trigger 2007-10-12 - By Patricio A. Bruna
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Mostly because use 2 field to represent the same data is a waste of storage i
think.
-- -- "Martijn Tonies" <m.tonies@(protected)> escribi??:
> >The aplication which is writing to the database is sending the date
> in unix
> format.
> >I can't no change that, so i suposse using a triger will help.
> >
> >The application pass the 'xxxxxx.xx' value when is inserting to the
> table.
>
> Righto. Well, what does this mean then:
>
> >im converting the unixtime to "normal" time with from_unixtime.
> >So after i did the convertion i write the result to the table.
> >It works ok when i write to a varchar column, but not to a date
> column
>
> Why not store the "unixtime" value and use an additional column to
> store
> an actual DATE value instead?
>
>
>
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