Re: Question on SQL Table (DDL) with date and time fields

1/1/1 is not a default SQL date. It's probably being set into the field in the program.

If you leave the PHDATE and PHTIME out of the list of fields in the insert, then they get the default. If you specify the fields and want to override the values, you can specify DEFAULT in the list of values for the fields instead of a host variable.

Doug Palme wrote:

Here is what I added to the DDL:

0002.00 PHDATE DATE WITH DEFAULT CURRENT DATE, 0003.00 PHTIME TIME WITH DEFAULT CURRENT TIME, ....

When using DBU it works perfectly....however, when a program writes a record those fields end up with a default date of 00001-01-01 and a default time of 00.00.00......obviously I am doing something wrong.....





From:
R Bruce Hoffman <bruce.hoffman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To:
RPG programming on the AS400 / iSeries <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date:
05/22/2008 10:07 AM
Subject:
Re: Question on SQL Table (DDL) with date and time fields



create table ... ( .... date with default current date ... )

Only defaults on insert when the field is not specified in the insert list. Updates leave it unaffected.

Doug Palme wrote:

is there a way to auto populate a date / time field with the current

date

and time without actually having code to do it? IE: Is there a default setting within the DDL spec that would cause the date field to be

filled?

Although as I think about this, that might be a problem on subsequent updates......


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