On Fri, 16 Apr 2004, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

> > I always ran one of the 2 scripts (can't remember which one) and after that 
> > started checking the dump file, because there were things that didn't get 
> > changed correctly[1].
> > 
> > [1]: I always remember the first conversion I did. I found out that MySQL 
> > accepted dates like 30/2/2000 or 0-0-0000.
> > Very odd.
> 
> Yes, MySQL has always accepted those as perfectly valid dates.  It's 
> quite broken.

the sad thing is that while MySQL implemented a -ansi switch that 
supposedly turns on ansi compliance, it only fixes about 1/2 of all the 
non-compliance issues.  Yet another half-implemented feature... :)


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