/Too bad/ Hey, that's *exactly* what the DateTime static variable type in
FoxTypes <https://github.com/eselje/FoxTypes> is all about.
myDate = createObject("Date")
myDate.value = date()
? myDate.ToString() && 06/14/2018
? myDate.ToString('F') && June 14, 2018 00:00:00 AM
? myDate.ToString('D') && Thursday, June 14, 2018
(etc etc etc)
Eric
On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 8:26 AM, Stephen Russell <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Too bad that a Date variable doesn't know enough about itself to present
> that.
>
> myDateString= myDate.ToString(myFormat)
>
> now iterate through all of the formats to potentially see:
>
> // Displays the following output by format:// d: 6/15/2008//
> D: Sunday, June 15, 2008// f: Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:15 PM//
> F: Sunday, June 15, 2008 9:15:07 PM// g: 6/15/2008 9:15
> PM// G: 6/15/2008 9:15:07 PM// m: June 15// o:
> 2008-06-15T21:15:07.0000000// R: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 21:15:07 GMT//
> s: 2008-06-15T21:15:07// t: 9:15 PM// T: 9:15:07
> PM// u: 2008-06-15 21:15:07Z// U: Monday, June 16, 2008
> 4:15:07 AM// y: June, 2008
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 3:36 AM Dave Crozier <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > +1 for mapping dates using dtos()
> >
> > Dave
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> > Sent: 13 June 2018 18:49
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: Re: VFP9, SqlServer and NULL values
> >
> > NULL means "I don't know" and <<NULL>> in a textmerge returns nothing.
> >
> > In my VFP 9, it returned .NULL. as the second argument, which no server
> > would understand :)
> >
> > try:
> >
> > SET NULLDISPLAY TO 'NULL'
> >
> > before the textmerge.
> >
> > Also, this might work better if you formatted the date you are inserting
> > using DTOS and wrapped it in single quotes.
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 13, 2018 at 1:26 PM, Rafael Copquin <
> [email protected]>
> > wrote:
> > > Thank you. It works well as you suggested but:
> > >
> > > cName = 'RAFAEL'
> > > vDOB = NULL
> > >
> > > cCmd = 'insert into mydatabase.dbo.employees(name,dob) values
> > > (?cName,?vDOB)'
> > > sqlexec(nHandle,cCmd)
> > >
> > > the above works, the below construct does not:
> > >
> > >
> > > Text to cCmd textmerge noshow flags 2 pretext 15
> > >
> > > insert into mydatabase.dbo.employees(name,dob) values
> > > ('<<cName>>',<<vDOB>>)
> > >
> > > endtext
> > >
> > > sqlexec(nHandle,cCmd)
> > >
> > >
> > > Why?
> > >
> > > I use text.. endtext most of the time, especially when the statements
> > > are very long and occupy several lines.
> > >
> > > Character strings are surrounded with '<<>>', numbers are <<>> and
> > > dates are '<<cDate>>' (dates are converted to the form YYY-MM-DD)
> > >
> > > Rafael
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > 2018-06-13 11:49 GMT-03:00 Frank Cazabon <[email protected]>:
> > >
> > >> Don't pass the dates as strings, use parameters and set the blank
> > >> date parameter to null prior to sending it:
> > >>
> > >> PRIVATE myDate AS Date
> > >>
> > >> myDate = DATE()
> > >>
> > >> IF EMPTY(m.myDate)
> > >>
> > >> m.myDate = NULL
> > >>
> > >> ENDIF
> > >>
> > >> m.lcSQL = "INSERT INTO myTable (myDateField) VALUES (?m.myDate)"
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> Frank.
> > >>
> > >> Frank Cazabon
> > >>
> > >>
> > >> On 13/06/2018 10:30 AM, Rafael Copquin wrote:
> > >>
> > >>> I have a SQL Server 2012 Express table with a field called DOB of
> > >>> type DATE
> > >>>
> > >>> The field accepts NULL values and does not have a default value..
> > >>>
> > >>> To insert the DOB from VFP I transform it to the form 'YYYY-MM-DD'
> > >>> and send it as a character string.
> > >>>
> > >>> However, if the DOB is empty, the only way VFP inserts the record is
> > >>> if the empty value is sent as ''
> > >>> and the DOB field displays '1900-01-01' which is the value inserted.
> > >>>
> > >>> I want to insert NULL in the field, not '1900-01-01'
> > >>>
> > >>> If I use the SQL Server Management Studio, I can insert the NULL
> > >>> value directly with this expression:
> > >>>
> > >>> insert into mydatabase.dbo.employees(name,dob) values( 'John
> > >>> Doe',NULL)
> > >>>
> > >>> However, this command, from VFP, does not insert the record:
> > >>>
> > >>> cCmd = [insert into mydatabase.dbo.employees(name,dob) values(
> > >>> 'John
> > >>> Doe',NULL) ]
> > >>>
> > >>> sqlexec(nHandle,cCmd)
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>> How can I get the field to get the NULL value?
> > >>>
> > >>> TIA
> > >>> Rafael Copquin
> > >>>
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