what if you really want to store the timestamp data, such
as the publication date of the article?
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Answer Posted / tim little
A timestamp field can hold a date passed to it!
If you do :
CREATE TABLE newtable ( aname varchar(32), pubdate timestamp );
INSERT INTO newtable ( aname, pubdate ) values ( 'first', '2009-07-08' );
and then do a
SELECT * from newtable;
Then you get "2009-07-08 00:00:00" as the date back! You don't need a second field. Why do people think this? I've seen this all around the internet and it's always wrong!
Now, I will tell you that any updates to that ROW WILL clobber the field, UNLESS you make efforts to put the old value back in, like :
update newtable set aname = 'now', pubdate=pubdate where aname = 'first';
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