Re: [sqlalchemy] Is there any potential problem to store datetime as strings in one column?

On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Bao Niu niuba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is there any potential disadvantages in using string as the datatype to store datetime plus timezone in one column? In my application the time information is not uniform. Some rows are datetime while others just date. I

[sqlalchemy] Is there any potential problem to store datetime as strings in one column?

Hi, Is there any potential disadvantages in using string as the datatype to store datetime plus timezone in one column? In my application the time information is not uniform. Some rows are datetime while others just date. I still want to store everything in one column, named time_point. Also