On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 05:32:34PM -0500, sean peters wrote: > Hi all, > I have run into a date storage problem that i don't like. A am storing > historic house sales, and some of the old data i have received only contains > the month and year, but not the date of the sale. Of course we want to store > this information, but a DATE column won't quite do the job, because year, > month, and day are all required. > > So, my homecooked solution is to use a DATE column, and another column as a > flag to denote whether the day-of-month is valid. Then i'll need to properly > craft my searches to understand this.
Why not just set the day value to '00' if you don't have a value, and then check that in your client code? That way, no extra columns. I.e. if you don't have a day value, then your DATE will be $sale-date-year . "-" . $sale-date-month . "-00", or whatever. Jesse Sheidlower -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]
