>Anyone know of a way to convert a datetime to a binary?
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>A Datetime is stored as 8 bytes so I should be able to convert it to an 8 byte string and back again.
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>Any ideas?
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>Cheers,
> Nick
Pressumably to save space. I think you will have to make two UDF for that, concatenating the individual parts. I think the data in the field is stored more or less like this - one byte each for century, year, month, day, hour, minute, second, 1/100 second. For your own format, of course, you might use a different format - for instance, one that takes up even less space.
The functions you would use are year(), month(), day(), hour(), etc.; also bintoc() and ctobin().
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