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		| Param Beginner
 
  
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				|  Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 1:52 am    Post subject: Smalldatetime |   |  
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				| Hi folks, What is the cobol equivalent of DB2 data type 'Smalldatetime'
 
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		| kolusu Site Admin
 
  
 
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				|  Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 6:23 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Param, 
 As far as I know DB2 on mainframe does not have data type SMALLDATETIME. Which version of DB2 are you using?
 
 I Know sql server and sybase have smalldatetime data types.
 
 
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				|  Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 6:27 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| Kolusu, I am extremely sorry...This was not in DB2...Actually it was in SQL...
 
 
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		| kolusu Site Admin
 
  
 
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				|  Posted: Thu Nov 13, 2003 6:43 am    Post subject: |   |  
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				| param, 
 In Sql Server ,the smalldatetime data type stores dates and times of day with less precision than datetime. SQL Server stores smalldatetime values as two 2-byte integers. The first 2 bytes store the number of days after January 1, 1900. The other 2 bytes store the number of minutes since midnight. Dates range from January 1, 1900, through June 6, 2079, with accuracy to the minute.
 
 Basically smalldatetime is stored in 2 parts of 2 byte integers which is equivalent to smallint in DB2.
 
 I suggest that you define 2 columns with data type smallint
 
 The first column would have the number of days. The second column would have number of minutes since midnight.
 
 Hope this helps...
 
 cheers
 
 kolusu
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