>>Hello all.
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>>Is there an advantage of using DTOS() over DTOC() or vise-versa when creating a compound index with a date field?
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>>Thanks.
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>DTOS() will create a string that has the year first, then the month, then the day. This works much better for sorting!!

And so will DTOC(somedate,1), but I guess you really knew that? :-)