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DateTime Field

Range of Type

This type of field can keep any datetime values.

Storage

This field always uses 4 bytes on disk per value. In fact datetime value is stored as a regular ULONG value.

Flags

  • fNullable

This field can be declared as Nullable. In this case a special bitmap is associated with this field.

  • fIndexed

This field can have flag fIndexed.

  • fUnique

This field can have flag fUnique.

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API

This field type is represented at the API level by VDateTime Class.

SQL

At SQL Level you can create such field using

CREATE TABLE T1( fldDateTime DATETIME );

You can use this field in any predicate expression, e.g.

SELECT * FROM T1 WHERE fldDateTime = '2007/09/01 12:12:12';