> > So, despite rudy's insistence, I still think that three
> > columns - year, month, day - will enable much more rapid extraction and
> > avoid confusion with the year.
>
> you just haven't worked with sql enough to know the pain that separate
year,
> month, day columns will bring
>
> you mentioned that you want 1/365th of the entries each day
>
> i'm betting that's not really what you want -- you probably want to pull
all
> rows where the birthday corresponds to tomorrow, or something
>
> 1/365th of the entries is not the way to go about it
>
> oh, and do not listen to anyone who tells you to use unixtimes
>
> those are an abomination and *require* you to convert -- always!! -- in
order to
> manipulate them, or even display them!!
>
>
> rudy
rudy,
Is this then the line for, say March 10?
SELECT DATE('0-03-10 10:03:0') FROM etc;
which is applied directly to the DATE column, no prior conversion?
Joseph
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