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In MySQL I needed to create table with two date fields.
One should serve as date entered, and one as date modified.
But you can’t have two fields od type TIMESTAMP in one table.
So, here is how I did a workaround:
CREATE TABLE tabContacts
( ID INT UNSIGNED NOT NULL auto_increment,
LastName VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL default '',
FirstName VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL default '',
Company VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL default '',
SearchType VARCHAR(16) NOT NULL default '',
ActivityCode VARCHAR(16) NOT NULL default '',
Status VARCHAR(16) NOT NULL default '',
AccountNum VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL default '',
DateEntered DATETIME DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
DateModified TIMESTAMP,
KeyWords VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL default '',
MasterRemark VARCHAR(128) NOT NULL default '',
PrintForHim TINYINT NOT NULL default 1,
PrintForHer TINYINT NOT NULL default 0,
ModifiedBy VARCHAR(64) NOT NULL default '',
PRIMARY KEY (ID),
KEY (LastName, Company)
) CHARSET utf8;
As you can see, I designated one filed as DATETIME and the other as TIMESTAMP. To test how this works, I inserted a test record into this table:
INSERT INTO tabContacts(LastName, FirstName, Company, ModifiedBy)
VALUES ('Test','1234','2345','34567')
and the result was: DateEntered: 2016-01-08 14:39:27 DateModified: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
Now I need to test an update. Will update auto-update DateModified field? Here is an update statement:
UPDATE tabContacts SET LastName = ‘TestUpdate’
WHERE msLastName = ‘Test’
Let’ look at DateEntered and DateModified. Nothing changed. Both fields stayed the same:
DateEntered: 2016-01-08 14:39:27 DateModified: 0000-00-00 00:00:00
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