RE: Date functions returning Strings

2001-09-05 Thread Venu
Hi !!! )-Original Message- )From: Ghislain Gadbois [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] )Sent: Wednesday, September 05, 2001 7:37 AM )To: MySQL List (E-mail) )Subject: Date functions returning Strings ) ) )Hi, ) )I'm using MM JDBC driver version 2.0.4 to access a MySQL database )3.23.

Date functions returning Strings

2001-09-05 Thread Ghislain Gadbois
Hi, I'm using MM JDBC driver version 2.0.4 to access a MySQL database 3.23.40 on Solaris 2.8. When I do the following query "SELECT NOW()", I always get String data and not Date data when fetching the data. Is it normal that Date functions returns a String? Is this a MySQL bug? Th