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Lynn Pettis

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June 5, 2012 at 10:58 pm

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Ken SSCoach Points: 17191 More actions · Answer 1

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June 5, 2012 at 10:59 pm

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Interesting. Good to know, thanks Lynn!

Koen Verbeeck SSC Guru Points: 259197 More actions · Answer 2

Very interesting question, but those answers were hard to read 🙂

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vk-kirov SSCertifiable Points: 7686 More actions · Answer 3

...zero zero colon zero zero colon zero zero point zero zero zero zero zero zero zero... 🙂

Nice question anyway.

kupy SSCommitted Points: 1652 More actions · Answer 4

Nice and easy one for me as i'm using it on a daily base cause this is my date format, but miss clicked and got it wrong :blush:

honza.mf SSCertifiable Points: 5519 More actions · Answer 5

Thanks for a good and interesting question, but such horrible to read answers 🙁

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rfr.ferrari SSCertifiable Points: 6879 More actions · Answer 6

good question!!

thanks Lynn!

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Dalton Moore SSC Eights! Points: 879 More actions · Answer 7

Well my eyes are awake after reading those answers 😉

sestell1 SSChampion Points: 10230 More actions · Answer 8

That's a bit frightening. Good to know. I'm glad I've never run into this!

Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286609 More actions · Answer 9

Agreed that the formatting was a bit challenging but a great question. Thanks Lynn!!!

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Steve Cullen SSCertifiable Points: 5598 More actions · Answer 10

Great question.

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Dana Medley SSCertifiable Points: 6764 More actions · Answer 11

I'm agreeing with what most people have put up before myself. Great question, it really made me think, but the answer format played some tricks on my brain this early in the morning. :blink:

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Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442470 More actions · Answer 12

Okay, I should have used the DATE data type for the question, then I could have left the time portion off the answers.

Lynn Pettis SSC Guru Points: 442470 More actions · Answer 13

sestell1 (6/6/2012)
That's a bit frightening. Good to know. I'm glad I've never run into this!

That's why I submitted this question. I'm sure at some point that someone is going to run into this and wonder why it isn't working the why they think it should. By making people aware of the differences in behaviour of the different date/time data types, hopefully this won't happen.

sqlSherwin SSCrazy Points: 2884 More actions · Answer 14

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June 6, 2012 at 8:36 am

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Thanks Lynn, that certainly is good to know.