Re: CQL Clarification

2013-04-29 Thread aaron morton
Not really, I've passed on the comments to the doc teams. The column timestamp is just a 64 bit int like I said. Cheers - Aaron Morton Freelance Cassandra Consultant New Zealand @aaronmorton http://www.thelastpickle.com On 29/04/2013, at 10:06 AM, Michael Theroux

CQL Clarification

2013-04-28 Thread Michael Theroux
Hello, Just wondering if I can get a quick clarification on some simple CQL. We utilize Thrift CQL Queries to access our cassandra setup. As clarified in a previous question I had, when using CQL and Thrift, timestamps on the cassandra column data is assigned by the server, not the client,

Re: CQL Clarification

2013-04-28 Thread aaron morton
I think this is some confusion about the two different usages of timestamp. The timestamp stored with the column value (not a column of timestamp type) is stored using microsecond scale, it's just a 64 bit int we do not use it as a time value. Each mutation in a single request will have a

Re: CQL Clarification

2013-04-28 Thread Michael Theroux
Yes, that does help, So, in the link I provided: http://www.datastax.com/docs/1.0/references/cql/UPDATE It states: You can specify these options: Consistency level Time-to-live (TTL) Timestamp for the written columns. Where timestamp is a link to Working with dates and times and mentions the