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  • From: "James K. Lowden" <jklowden AT freetds.org>
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Get rid of milliseconds from MS SQL server
  • Date: Sat, 1 Oct 2005 09:47:31 -0400

Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> Il giorno ven, 30/09/2005 alle 10.48 -0700, Patrick Gu ha scritto:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am using freetds 0.63 with DBD::ODBC to pull data from MS SQL Server
> > 2000 to RH AS3. But I am getting the milliseconds for the date columns
> > in the format of
> > YYYY-MM-DD HH:MI:SS.SSS, anyone know if there is a quick way in
> > freetds or DBD::ODBC to set the format?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
>
> Well... it depends. If server return (SMALL)DATETIME column FreeTDS
> format it to ODBC format (the same you reported) if column is converted
> by mssql you should check mssql documentation (tsql, cast, convert, set
> dateformat...). I don't know if DBD::ODBC have options to set date
> format for DATETIME... MS ODBC driver have an option to use system
> setting to format data as system settings; FreeTDS don't have such
> option for simplicity, and it do not even support precision setting on
> date.

Isn't this what the "date format" in locales.conf takes care of?

--jkl




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