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Monday, March 10, 2008

ITM 6.1 Data Warehouse TimeStamps

The Timestamp attribute in the ITM 6.1 data warehouse is not in a normal database format. It is in a special format.

The format of the timestamp attribute is a 16 character string that has the format of cyymmddhhmmssttt where:

    c = century (1 = 2000)
    yy = year
    mm = month
    dd = day
    hh = hour
    mm = minutes
    ss = seconds
    ttt = hundredth of seconds
This timestamp makes it hard to do normal timestamp like functions against the data (e.g., report on a time range of data from the database) without creating a special procedure or database function. For more information on on the ITM 6.1 data warehouse see:

http://www.gulfsoft.com/downloads/TDW21.pdf

Frank Tate at 10:28 AM
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