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  Re: How to check the date validity? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-12-26 09:03 +1100

#62714 — Re: How to check the date validity?

On Thu, Dec 26, 2013 at 6:03 AM, Sibylle Koczian <nulla.epistola@web.de> wrote:
> MySQL used to accept wrong date and datetime formats without error messages.
> Garbage in the database, because validation was (is?) considered the job of
> "the application". Possibly that has changed, but I'd look into the docs. It
> isn't PostgreSQL.

Nor is it DB2, which is where I grew up, databases-wise. Yes, check
what MySQL will do. I'd forgotten that, or more likely suppressed it
from my mind.

ChrisA

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