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Re: Storing a "fuzzy date"

From: Michael G. Schneider <mgs_at_mgs-software.de>
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 11:07:03 +0100
Message-ID: <a57pbu$q7s$03$1@news.t-online.com>


"Mark D Powell" <mark.powell_at_eds.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:178d2795.0202220635.1d7da334_at_posting.google.com...

> The best advice I can offer is to store the dates using the Oracle
> date datatype and associate a format mask indicator with the date
> field. You would need to normalize the month year entires to always
> be the first day of the month or some standard.

Thank's a lot for your explanations. I will follow your advice.

Michael G. Schneider Received on Sat Feb 23 2002 - 04:07:03 CST

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