[AccessD] New thrd: dates

Stuart McLachlan stuart at lexacorp.com.pg
Sat Aug 23 05:23:39 CDT 2014


That's why they changed the name of the SQL Server TIMESTAMP to  ROWVERSION (in 
2005?) - a much more accurate description of its purpose and structure.



On 23 Aug 2014 at 9:39, Gustav Brock wrote:

> Hi Bill
> 
> You can say that with an Access backend, a timestamp has to be
> produced by the frontend, while with a server backend like SQL Server,
> a timestamp is normally produced by the backend engine. However, the
> nature of those timestamps may be very different. For SQL Server, a
> timestamp is not readable as a time, it's for internal use only.
> 
> /gustav



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