Agreed...
Also for consistency's sake

On 9/4/07 3:15 PM, "Michael Dykman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Triggers are a fine idea, but I would use a trigger for both cases..
> no point putting that level of housekeeping on the application when
> you can set rules in the database and more or less forget about it.
> 
>  - michael
> 
> 
> On 9/4/07, Olaf Stein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I would use a trigger (at least for the update)....
>> 
>> The first insert should work with now() and you can leave lastupdateted
>> empty
>> 
>> 
>> Olaf
>> 
>> 
>> On 9/4/07 3:01 PM, "Hiep Nguyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi list,
>>> 
>>> i tried to create a table with inserted & lastupdated timestamp fields:
>>> 
>>> create table temp (
>>> id int not null primary ke auto_increment,
>>> data varchar(100),
>>> inserted timestamp default now(),
>>> lastupdated timestamp(8));
>>> 
>>> 
>>> how do i get mysql to put in the current timestamp for inserted &
>>> lastupdated fields when i insert a record and only lastupdated when i
>>> update the record?
>>> 
>>> thanks,
>>> T. Hiep
>>> 
>> 
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