[Info-Ingres] Formatting dates on insert or update - Help required please

[s.anderson.au at gmail.com]

On Aug 10, 4:44 am, --CELKO-- <jcelko... at earthlink.net> wrote:
> >> Of course I could be completely missing the point! <<
>
> I don't want to store it that way; I want to use that look-up table
> for data scrubbing and input validation.  It beat the heck out of
> complex string manipulation in procedural code.

No, I understand what you were trying to do with your FixBadDate
table, but I don't understand why Richard would need to be concerned
about how dates are stored by Ingres.  I like you approach with the
FixBadDate table, it's pretty cool.