From: Ken Tanzer <ken.tanzer@gmail.com>
>>>>> "Ken" == Ken Tanzer <ken.tanzer@gmail.com> writes:
Ken> Hi. I've got a text field in a table that holds this style of
Ken> timestamp:
Ken> 2014-10-23T00:00:00
You can't make this a field of type "timestamp" rather than text?
> I actually can't, or rather don't want to. The underlying data this is drawn from is actually a date field, but this particular table keeps a history of what we actually transmitted to another organization, and I want to keep it as an exact replication of what we sent.
If it’s not too painful, add another column to your table of type DATE, and on INSERT shove your “timestamp” into that, converting/casting as needed, then index that. So at the cost of an extra 4 bytes per row, you can have both your “transmission” value and an indexable value.
Kevin
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