Re: DATETIME vs CHAR for "timestamp"

> On Apr 14, 2017, at 1:07 PM, shawn l.green wrote: > > That all depends. Do you... Hi Shawn, I thought I had replied to your response, but it looks like I didn’t. Thank you for your email. It was a thorough response and the links were very helpful, as

Re: DATETIME vs CHAR for "timestamp"

On 4/14/2017 3:11 PM, SSC_perl wrote: I have creation date/time fields in my script that are formatted as |MM|DD|hh|mm|ss. Short of changing the script, should I set the field type in MySQL to DATETIME, or would it be better in terms of speed and efficiency to set it as