Hi!
On Nov 27, Jerry wrote:
> >> Hi
> >>
> >> I have 2 text columns VARCHAR 50 and I put a date in them in format
> >>
> >> yyyymmddhhmmss
>
> >> Is there a way to force string to be read as interger (same as CINT in
> >> VBScript, but I need to to this in mySQL).
>
> >Yes, string_expression+0 will be an integer. It's not pretty, but it
> >works.
>
> Hm, doesn't work :-(
>
> What is wrong here:
>
> SQLstmt = "SELECT r_date+0 as date, count(*) as count"
> SQLStmt = SQLstmt & "FROM forum_reply "
> SQLStmt = SQLStmt & " WHERE topic_ID =" & topic_ID & " AND date < " &
> session("date")
> Session("date") holds 20011126121222
>
> Is 14 number digit to much to use
14 digit number is ok - MySQL uses longlong internally
and can handle up to 9223372036854775807. Of course, your platform
should support it, but it, probably, does.
> or what is wrong?
you had to write "... AND date+0 < "
Regards,
Sergei
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