Re: use of date type fields

[boothm@xxxxxxx]

on 01/06/98at 09:58 AM,  our friend Dan Swartz
<dswartz@courts.state.pa.us> said:

>We're embarking on some database design issues and I wanted to know how
>others felt about the use of date type fields versus just numeric type
>fields (format would be CCYYMMDD).  

Take some time and try out the L-date field.  It has some  verrry nice
features and i'd bet nickles to cupcakes that more features are already on
the drawing boards.  There are drawbacks (mainly, imho, that the L-date
field can not be an invalid date.  For example, a future-due date can not
be blank, zeros, or null.)  

But do some messing around with it  -  I'm getting used to it and I like
it.


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Booth Martin     
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