[dba-SQLServer]cross posted - Time fields don't upsize

John W. Colby jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Tue Feb 25 13:07:25 CST 2003


I have discovered that in all the cases so far, my problems upsizing a table
has been a date field.  In one table, I actually split out the data and time
into separate fields - and want to keep it that way.  Unfortunately I think
the time being in the date by itself makes the date look to SQL Server like
it is back at the beginning of time (date wise). IOW, without a data, the
time in that field looks like it's in the year 1000 or something, which is
invalid in SQL Server.

Which seems pretty weird all by itself - what happens if you want to log the
age of an object found in a tomb or something?

Anyway, is there a way to allow just the time portion to upsize to SQl
Server?  Or am I going to have to append the time to a valid date, then
change the way I do business?

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com

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