At 1:09 PM -0500 4/12/99, jkraai@stripped wrote:
>hi!
>
>Minor problems loading data from text file.
>
>Source:
> Progress 4GL on AIX. Exported date format "MM-DD-YY".
>Can't seem to change the format of this field--nowhere in the export
>builder to specify field formats.
>
>Destination:
> MySQL (3.22.14-gamma) field spec "date".
>
>LOAD DATA INFILE '...' brings this in as 0000-00-00.
>
>I could load data into another file with this column defined as a char,
>then bring it into the real file, is this necessary?
Either that, or reformat the date in the file that you read in with
LOAD DATA.
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Paul DuBois, paul@stripped
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