Re: SQLRPGLE ... order by Timestamp descending

[Charles Wilt <charles.wilt@xxxxxxxxx>]

What are you using to look at those records with 0001-01-01?

If DBU or similar, I suspect they are actually NULL.

Charles

On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 7:34 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I have a file with a timestamp field which quite often has a value
> 0001-01-01.  I want to select all records in the file, in descending order
> for that timestamp.
>
> First issue:  Only records greater than 0001-01-01 are being returned.
>
> Second issue: no records are returned if I use "order by :timestamp desc"
>
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