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Timestamp - to be or not to be?

From: Mark Moynahan <Mark.Moynahan_at_apollogrp.edu>
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 13:36:54 -0700
Message-ID: <73BB49215339D743903095833FFE4B17DA4E07@apophxex4.apollogrp.edu> 





Hi,



Are there any technical reasons not to go forth with timestamp instead of
date datatype? Are there any gotcha's by converting to timestamp? 



If an application doesn't use fractions of a second is there any real need
to use timestamp datatype?



Thanks,



Mark





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