International Numbers and Date/Times
Date: 1996/02/07
Message-ID: <4fatt9$7da_at_saturn.exodus.net>#1/1
Can anyone describe some of the issues in international
companies using SQL datbases? In particular, each vendor has a
scheme for *localizing* a database to get appropriate collating
sequences. But what happens to numbers and date/time formats.
The internal storage no doubt is the same, but does the SQL
text used selects and inserts/updates change. For example, In
English if I want to select, insert, or update on the value one
thousand, the SQL statement contains this fragment:
But if I am sending this statement statement to a French
database, will may statement fail unless I send it:
The specific problem I want to avoid is in copying a row from a
connection on an English database to a row on a connection in a
Thanks in advance for any advice. Received on Wed Feb 07 1996 - 00:00:00 CET