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Difference between DATETIME and TIMESTANP [message #656243] Fri, 30 September 2016 02:44 Go to next message
Cathydoesloans
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Who can help me what is difference between DATETIME and TIMESTAMP and is what cases do i need to use each other?
Re: Difference between DATETIME and TIMESTANP [message #656245 is a reply to message #656243] Fri, 30 September 2016 03:13 Go to previous messageGo to next message
ThomasG
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The main difference in Oracle is that "TIMESTAMP" does exist, but there is nothing that is called "DATETIME" in Oracle.
Re: Difference between DATETIME and TIMESTANP [message #656249 is a reply to message #656245] Fri, 30 September 2016 04:38 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Michel Cadot
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The question is for MySQL, I move the topic to this forum.

Re: Difference between DATETIME and TIMESTANP [message #656273 is a reply to message #656243] Fri, 30 September 2016 18:04 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Barbara Boehmer
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The two types have different value ranges. Timestamp stores fractions of seconds and datetime does not. So, which you use depends on what you need. The following online manual section describes the types and their differences in more detail. Just click on the link below.


http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/datetime.html
Re: Difference between DATETIME and TIMESTANP [message #656315 is a reply to message #656273] Mon, 03 October 2016 02:37 Go to previous message
Cathydoesloans
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Thank you for the description and link, I'll check it !
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