your date can be null, no problem, you just need to incorporate some flow control logic into your query to deal with null dates.
simple example would be: SELECT ..., IFNULL(datecolumn, 'not available') AS datecolumn, ... then at output you can do: <cfoutput query="..."> .... <cfif datecolumn neq 'not available'>#dateformat(datecolumn, 'yourmask')#<cfelse>#datecolumn#</cfif> hth Azadi Saryev Sabai-dee.com http://www.sabai-dee.com/ Mike Little wrote: > hi guys, > > i have a birthdate field in mySQL that is a date field (NULL). when querying > the database i get... > > Value '0000-00-00' can not be represented as java.sql.Date > > i have tried changing to timestamp, but the same occurs. this happens for the > records with no birthdate. > > has anyone come across this before. i have tried deleting out the null date > but it still gives a value of '0000-00-00'. > > mike > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:313505 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
