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Subject: Re: DateTime
Author: Ruslan Zasukhin
Posted: 2001/04/29 11:23:07
 
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on 29/4/01 15:36, Vincent MERCEY at vmercey /at/ noos .DO.T fr wrote:

Hi Vincent,

> I am trying to understand how to work with DateTime fields.
> And, I fail.

> Suppose a database that have a Persons table with their birthdate as a
> DateTime field.

> How can I search in persons that are N years old ?

> I know how to do that with DAL's DateTime.
> I do not see how to deal with Valentina's DateTime.
> I have tried Methods provided by Valentina, but they work with strings
> ("29/04/2001").

they work NOT only with strings.
You can pass to method Date or DateTime field itself.

> I want to do something equivalent to
> select * from persons where 2001 - birthdate.year = 40

so you can have Method

mm = "2001 - Year(fldDateTime)"


and then do query:

WHERE mm = 40

Yes, later we will be able use functions directly in SQL and do not create
BaseObject method for this.


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