> Well, a "timestamp" in mySQL is a bit different from a
> "datetime", so it seems a little weird using that sql type 
> in the param

Oh .. that.  The thing to remember is cfsqltypes are based on the generic 
java.sql.Types used in JDBC (for all databases). Not the names of the data 
types used by your database. Obviously the two are connected, and most of the 
names do correspond pretty closely. But there are a few exceptions. "Timestamp" 
is one of them. 

http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/api/java/sql/Types.html

For whatever reason they chose not to have a type called DATETIME type, and 
instead used the name TIMESTAMP. I am not sure why they chose to break with 
convention there .. but they did. So "Timestamp" is the correct type to use for 
date/time columns.

(If you want some real fun, try and figure out the correct types to use for the 
approximate numeric types ... ;)




      


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