>-----Original Message-----
>From: João Cândido de Souza Neto [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Friday, December 17, 2010 6:11 AM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: Access to MySQL
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>What about this?
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>date_format(now(), "%Y/%m/%d")
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[JS] I don't think you can use anything but a constant as a default value.

Regards,

Jerry Schwartz
Global Information Incorporated
195 Farmington Ave.
Farmington, CT 06032

860.674.8796 / FAX: 860.674.8341
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>João Cândido de Souza Neto
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>""Jerry Schwartz"" <[email protected]> escreveu na mensagem
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>I have to move the back-end of an Access application to MySQL, and I've run
>into one issue that I haven't been able to solve yet.
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>The Access database stores dates as text in a "yyyy/mm/dd" format. The
>problem is that the default value is a formula that generates the current
>date, formatted as text. In Access, it looks like
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>'=Format$(Now(),\"yyyy/mm/dd\")'
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>This construct is used throughout the table definitions.
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>Is there any alternative to setting the default to something else (NULL, for
>example) and moving the "default" into the application code? That would be a
>significant PITA.
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>Regards,
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>Jerry Schwartz
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>Global Information Incorporated
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>195 Farmington Ave.
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>Farmington, CT 06032
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>860.674.8796 / FAX: 860.674.8341
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>E-mail:  <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]
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>Web site:  <http://www.the-infoshop.com/> www.the-infoshop.com
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