[rt-users] Question about Dates in DB

[Gene LeDuc]

FWIW, a brief snoop didn't turn up any null date fields in our MySQL RT 
database.

Gene

At 08:31 AM 6/19/2007, Stephen Turner wrote:
>At Tuesday 6/19/2007 11:26 AM, Justin Brodley wrote:
>>I'm working on some reports for our RT database, and I'm noticing that 
>>fields get populated with 1/1/1970 if there is nothing entered into the DB.
>>
>>Is this accurate assessment?  If so can I just assume that 1/1/1970 = null?
>
>Yes, that's right. One other twist, if I recall correctly, (it may depend 
>on what database you use- we run Oracle) is that sometimes null dates are 
>stored as null in the database. So you may have to allow for both null and 
>1/1/1970 as meaning "no date set".
>
>Steve
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Gene LeDuc, GSEC
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