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Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 05/05/06 00:55

Tony Rogerson (tonyrogerson@sqlserverfaq.com) writes:
> Yes but hang on a minute, what if you don't want a time, holding the
> time component is misleading that indicates the data value may contain a
> time between 00:00:00 and 23:59:59, being 00:00:00 means the trade was
> done at midnight which may well not be true, consider settment date
> where the trade needs to settle on a particular day, not by midnight but
> sometime on that day.
>
> In SQL Server because we don't have a DATE data type we need to store
> dates as an integer in the form yyyymmdd which is unfortunate but the
> reality.

Only if you like to throw out babies and bathtubs simultaneously.

All our settledate columns are datetime, or more precisely aba_date,
which is a datetime with a rule bound to that screams blue murder if
you try to use anything else than 00:00:00.000 for the time porttion.

And, no, our customers do not settle at midnight.


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