MYSQL :: Date Field In Database Shows 0000-00-00 00:00:00

MYSQL Date Entry Shows 0000-00-00
i want the user to type in the date. Everything works fine and the form submits. When i open the database and query the results, the date field shows only 0000-00-00. It doesn't show the date entered (ex 05/23/07). What am i doing wrong?

I'm thinking it has to do something with converting the string to a date? If so, how do i do that in PHP.

'datetime' Shows Only '0000-00-00 00:00:00'
I currently have a form set up on a site to send data entered into a database.
Now, the form submits correctly, the data is stored in the database correctly,
but the 'datetime' shows up as '0000-00-00 00:00:00' in each record.

I set the datetime variable to 'not null' and when I update the table, it sets the
default value to '0000-00-00 00:00:00'. Am I forgetting to set something or
where and how does the form get that date and time info?

Problem With 0000-00-00 In 'Date' Field ?
I have a field in a table called 'ShipDate'. This particular field has allow null set to no. So by default this sets all the records to show 00/00/0000 in the field for each record that has no data entered.

In my .asp pages I am trying to test against this empty field.

i.e.

If RS("ShipDate") = 0000-00-00
or
If RS("ShipDate") = 00/00/0000

The only thing that seems to work is if I am testing for records with
a date in that field,

If RS("ShipDate") > 0000-00-00

How can I test if that field is empty ?, nothing seems to work ?

Date Field Saved As 0000-00-00
I have a table with a field type date and null is set to yes. How can I insert a blank value without it being save as 0000-00-00.

Empty 'Date' Field In Database ?
I have field in a table which is of type 'date'

If the particular record has no date listed, how can I test for an empty date ?

If RS("ShipDate") > 0 then

or

If RS("ShipDate") = 0 then (or "", or ##)

Empty 'Date' Field In Database
I have field in a table which is of type 'date'
If the particular record has no date listed, how can I test for an empty date ?
If RS("ShipDate") > 0 then
or

If RS("ShipDate") = 0 then (or "", or ##) .

MySQL Database Table Field - Date Modified Available?
wondered if anyone knew of a way to get your MySQL database table to log (date/time) when each individual field is modified or updated without having to have an extra column for each field of type datestamp or timestamp to record it?

Loading Date Format 1-1-2007 To Date Field Doesn't Work
I'm trying to load the date into a date field in mysql so that I can sort by date, but the date field in mysql is yyyy dd mm or yyyy mm dd so it doesn't load. What can I do?

How To Convert A Varchar Field Into Proper Mysql Date Field?
I have a database in which the date is stored in varchar field in a following format: d-m-Y (06-08-2007), now the problem is that I want to change that field into mySQL date field as well as convert my older dates into MySQL date format i-e Y-m-d (2007-08-06)..

There are about 300 old entries..is there a way I can do that automatically without manually re-entering the dates again?

Select Date Only From Date Time Field
if I have "Date Time" field , How can I get the Date only from this field.

Date/time Field Update Only Date
I have a field(tmMessage) in a table, it's a date/time struct.
it looks like "2003-09-21 15:52:35"

All I want to do is change the date in this field.
I want the time to stay the same.

Date Field, Time Field, Sort By Date And Time
I have a MySQL date field (e.g 13/12/2006) and a MySQL time field (e.g.13:00) in the same row.

I'd like to join these two fields to make a date/time field (e.g. 13:00 13/12/2006) on the fly and to be able to sort the query results on the resulting field.

Date Range On Date Field
I have a table that has birthday dates stored as a DATE field. How would I get all the rows returned based on a min years old and a max years old...Let's say...
My form has....

Display Rows by birthdate in years....

Show between (23 years old) AND (36 years old) from the current month/day/year

0000 Turns To 0 With INT
Okay I need an id that is 4 (four) digit id but when I put 0000 its turns to 0 how to I avoid this.

Date Field, Time Field
I have a MySQL date field (e.g 13/12/2006) and a MySQL time field (e.g.13:00) in the same row.

I'd like to join these two fields to make a date/time field (e.g. 13:00 13/12/2006) and to be able to sort the query results on the resulting field.

Curdate() Is 0000-00-00 For New Entry
I have a web form that users submit information through and it gets stored in a MySQL table. I wanted to capture the "creation date" of the record. So, I do the following:

1) I connect to the database and ask for the curdate() assigning it to a variable.
2) Then I turn around and store the user input into the table along with the curdate() variable that I first retrieved.

However, I just noticed something while still testing this. If I drop/add the table, the first entry always retrieves a curdate() of 0000-00-00. And this is a issue as I later allow users to retrieve these records based upon their creation dates. So, the first one will be lost.

Why is the first record recording 0000-00-00? The table exists even without any data in it. And, how do I get around this?

0000-00-00 00:00:00 Format Related Question ...
I am trying to count number of rows by month and year. In the mysql db, I am recording data as NOW(), means 0000-00-00 00:00:00 format.

7e2 Shows Up As 7.00E+02
I have value that I'm adding to a table via an insert statement. The value is "7e2", but for some reason is being converted to scientific notation on the insert "7.00E+02". I have quotes around the field as well. If you look at the insert statement below, it's "question" field. Anyone know of a way to force it to be a string?

$sql = "INSERT INTO ICI_ANSWERS (session_id, scale_id, question, answer, date_stamp) VALUES ('" . $piece . $data[0] . "', " . $data[1] . ", '" . $data[2] . "', '" . $data[3] . "', '" . $data[4] . "')";

Opened_tables Always Shows Zero
When I log into any of our db servers, go into mysql on the command line, and do a 'show status', the value of Opened_tables is always showing 0.

However, when I log into mysql via the MySQL Administrator and look under Health-->Status Variables it shows a value.

Any idea why it's always showing zero when I do it from within mysql on the command line? It's happening on multiple servers.

MySQL Only Shows Homepage
I have a problem concerning MySQL and Apache. I host a Fedora server with Apache, MySQL and PHP installed. A customer has a webpage that uses MySQL but for some reason I can't get any other pages than the homepage up when I click on other links, I just come back to the homepage. The URL displays the other link but it still stays the same. Code:

Querying Only Shows 3 Columns
I have a mysql database set up with 20 columns but when querying the database only get 3 columns listed. The code i am using is as follows.
// connect to server, database, table.
include ("db_connect.inc");
SQL-query:
$sql = 'SELECT * FROM `signups` ORDER BY `title` ASC LIMIT 0, 30';

Is there a problem with my coding or the database itself? and what are the fixes for this problem?

DATE Field....
i have a date field, that my users enter for when they captured a lead...

field name type
Lead_Date DATE

and the format is yyyy-mm-dd

i then have a page that calls the entire table for my agents to view...

but if they did not happen to enter a date into the Lead_Date field, it shows: 0000-00-00

how can i just not have it show, or show blank?

Date Field
I have a date field set as default="NULL". I think that is causing me problems when I try to see if that date field contains a value. The mysql below only works when I get rid of the date field AND charged='NULL'. How can I tell if a date contains a NULL value??

"SELECT *
FROM orders
WHERE enterdate >= '$fromsql'
AND enterdate <= '$tosql'
AND orderstatus='CLOSED'
AND charged='NULL'

Date Field
I have a table with a date field, stored I believe as yyyy-mm-dd. I want to pass a date value to a page and match records based on that particular date. I've tried this:

SL.seminar_date = '" & request("date") & "'"

and several variatons of the same but keep getting an error.

Error Shows The E-mail @ Sign..?
I am gettin an error msg when trying to enter my newsletter registration details to the database.

function process_nl($id) {
$name=$_POST['txtname'];
$email=$_POST['txtemail'];
$SQL = "INSERT INTO nletter (name, email) VALUES ($name, $email)";
if(mysql_query($SQL,$id)) {
return true;
exit;
}
else
return false;
}

error:
You have an error in your SQL syntax near '@yahoo.com)' at line 1

Phpmyadmin Shows ???? Of Korean Data
My machine is windows xp sp2 with Apache HTTPD 2.2.0, MySQL 5.0.18, PHP 4.4.1 pl1 phpMyAdmin 2.7.0-pl1.

And the settings of apm is;

1) httpd.conf
DefaultLanguage ko

2) php.ini
default_mimetype = "text/html"
;default_charset = "iso-8859-1"
;default_charset ="utf-8"
;efault_charset = "euc-kr"

3) my.inf
[mysqld]
character-set-server = utf8
collation-server = utf8_general_ci

On my test site, I can see right Korean data.
But on phpmyadmin I can see only ???? for Korean data.

Musql Dump Shows Error
I am trying to backing up a databse .

I open the command promt form start > run;
i wrote the command "mysqldump --opt kimberly > backup.sql"
kimberly = database name;

the error comes out :

mysqldump: Got error: 1045: Access denied for user 'ODBC'@'localhost' (using password: NO) when trying to connect

Date Field Gets Changed ...
Through my php script user x uploading files to mysql table.
then user y login and correct that file & put grade for that file up to that the grade
field is empty. now i am getting problem here.
my table having date_time field, it is indicating the uploaded date & time of user
x.
when user y update that grade the date_time field also gets updated by the current
time, but i didn't change that field through my query.
here i want to keep the previous date_time .
How it is? Thanks in advance.
shyami

How To Get Date From DateTime Field
my Login field is in Date n Time format---->6/12/2006 02:30:25pm

And in my query, i juz wan to get the date wic is 6/12/2006.. how to write the sql?

Date Field Gets Changed ...
Through my php script user x uploading files to mysql table.

then user y login and correct that file & put grade for that file up to that the grade
field is empty. now i am getting problem here.

my table having date_time field, it is indicating the uploaded date & time of user
x.

when user y update that grade the date_time field also gets updated by the current
time, but i didn't change that field through my query.

here i want to keep the previous date_time .

Date Field Importing
Our informix database has a date format(MM/DD/YYYY) in all tables. We are trying to import into MySQl. MySQl requires YYYY-MM-DD format. Is there a way to configure Mysql to accept the informix(MM/DD/YYYY)date format.

MySql Date Field
I need to query data from a MySql database based on a date field but I notice all the date fields appear to be stored as numeric data types, see below:

Ticket_ID    Opened_Date    Closed_Date
1            1115904879    0
2            1116515087    1116515801
3            1118401271    0

Update A Date Using A SUM(field)
I have been asked to come up with a way of updating a date field, so that it subtracts the total number of days. If there was only one record to add to the field then it would be a simple case of

DATE_SUB(m1.date_joined, INTERVAL p1.qual_days DAY)

but unfortunately, there can be more than one record in the second table, so I need something like

DATE_SUB(m1.date_joined, INTERVAL SUM(p1.qualdays) DAY)

but it won't work, even after I add in a GROUP BY statement at the end of the query, I get an error using GROUP BY.

I have now resorted to creating a temp table to dump all the calculations in there and then doing an update using the values but I'm trying to find out if there is a better way of doing it.

Search A Date Field
I have a date field defined as:

'created_date' timestamp NOT NULL default '0000-00-00 00:00:00'

It is also an indexed KEY. What would be the fastest search on that field if my desired results were for records created during a specific month?

created_date LIKE '2007-07%'

created_date REGEXP '^2007-07'

created_date>'2007-07-01 00:00:00' AND created_date<'2007-08-01 00:00:00'

Thanks for your opinions.

BTW, if you know Perl do you think it would be faster for MySQL to give me created _date data as DAY(created_date) or for Perl to split the date (first on a space character and again on the hyphen character)?

Date Field Puzzle
I'd like to sort the files by the date field (DoA), when when it is used like this, how do I, please, Gurus?

... CONCAT(TO_DAYS(Curdate()) - TO_DAYS(DoA), 'days') AS LateBy ... ORDER BY LateBy DESC;

Default Value For A Date Field
I am trying to create a column inside a preexisting table. The column has a type of date. Is there a way to set the default value to now() or curdate()? In MSSQL the default value would be 'getdate()', but when i try to use the MySQL varient an error returns saying this is an invalid default value.

Statement Concerning Date Field
I'm pulling my hair out with what seems to be a simple operation.

My table has a DATE field. I'm simply trying to pull out records that satisfy the highest date in the table.

Via PHP, I'm first running a query to get the highest date value--that works fine. Then I try to run a second query with a WHERE statement using the previous max date as criteria. I get an error. I've tried quoting/not quoting and even using timestamps. I'm stumped!

CODE//first, get the date of last chart

$query = "SELECT max(tbl_charts.date) AS HighestDate FROM tbl_charts";
$queryname = "getMax";
include "querydb.php";
while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($getMax,MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
$lastdate=$line['HighestDate'];
//$year=substr($lastdate,0,4);
//$month=substr($lastdate,5,2);
//$day=substr($lastdate,8,2);
//$datestring=$month."/".$day."/".$year;

code...

Now() In Default Value Of Date Field
I have been using the MySQL Administrator in order to create tables and have been unable to set the default value of any date fields to the current date by using the Now() function. When I attempt to do so, I receive the error message: MySQL error number 1067.

Has anyone experienced this problem? If so, how do I set the default property of a date field to the current date?

Blank Date Field
How do you determine if a Date field is blank. In my Sql statement I
only want records who's date field is blank (i.e. checking for only open
invoices where Date_Paid = '' ...still open ...it doesn't work when I use
that syntax)

MySQL Date Field
I have three drop downlists which contain month, year and day. I want to be able to select a date from this drop downlist and match it to a date in the my sql database.
The problem is, is that when I select a date from the drop downlist and use a query to match it to a field in the database it only works when the field in the database is not in format:datetime. It works with format:varchar but not date/time format.
Can anyone help me with this problem as I cant seem to find a solution.

Date Related Field
This may sound awkward, but I have a field that is of varchar(10) type with dates in the format mm/dd/yyyy
Is there anyway to query on this table and sort by this field although its not of date type? I want to sort asc and desc but I am guessing I need to cast on the fly or something? I'd like to use this convention going forward (I know its stupid) It was done this way as an easy way out

Arabic Character Encoding Problem (shows Just ????????)
i have a problem and i did not found a solution untill now and i hope i found it here.
when i try to enter the arabic characters throw the browser to the mysql DB using phpmyadmin it does not enter the arabic characters but strange characters
but when i fetch the data to the browsers it shows the characters in arabic.
(the is the first problem)

the other problem is ...
when i write directly to the phpmyadmin in arabic it shows me the arabic characters inside phpmyadmin and when i fetch dhe data to the browsers it shows to me only question marks ??????????????????.
#########################
inserting throw browsers = displaying ok in browsers but not ok in phpmyadmin
inserting throw phpmyadmin = displaying ok in phpmyadmin but ???????? in browsers
##########################

Query Log Shows 12+ Attempts To Connect Every Minute
I have mysql-4.0.20a-nt running on windows 2000. I had trouble connecting from a different computer in my home network so I set the following in my.ini:

set-variable=log=mysql.log

At startup I get the mysql.log file in the data directory. Upon inspection it shows a lot of connect commands, at least 12 every minute, with some 10 seconds in between, they come in pairs, first as ODBC@localhost with no password, and second as user@localhost with a password set. Access seems to be denied every time. Here's a snippet from the file:

MySql, Version: 4.0.20a-nt-log, started with:
TCP Port: 3306, Named Pipe: MySQL
Time Id Command Argument
050320 20:38:08 1 Connect Access denied for user: 'user@localhost' (Using password: YES) ....

INSERT Non-MySQL Date Into MySQL Date Field
I have a non-MySQL database that has a date value that is an integer value (4 byte unsigned integer representing the number of days since 1904, ie 01/01/2000 = 35063)

Do I need to re-format this to use in an SQL to INSERT it into a MySQL table?

If I do need to reformat it, what is the best format to use.

Date Field In Mysql Query
Just after a bit of advice or guidance on the best way to go about an issue i have..

At present i have a simple user form with drop down lists for the user to enter a date. (eg. 1,2,3, - Jan, feb, mar, - 2006,2007 etc..) as -$day -$month- $year...

All other input areas on this form are text and will go in a Varchar fields so will not be an issue...

My query is what is the best way to handle this date, and how..?
I undestand Mysql needs the date as yyyy mm dd to be in a date field..
Im just really unsure of how to put my format date in to a date field on the table and query it out so it displays in my format again..

Ive done quite of bit of searching for this and seen many suggestions including using INT and Varchar fields so i am really confused as the best and correct way to go about this..

Sorting DATE Field By Year
I've have a field ('gamedate') in a table ('games') that is in DATE format, but what I can't figure out is how to use the year as part of a search form option. I'm hoping to get a drop down menu that is a list of years, that when selected will bring back just the records from that year, or in the future, use BETWEEN to find all records from a set group of dates.

Is there a step I'm missing to "extract" the "YYYY" part of the DATE field before using it? Or maybe there's a wildcard that needs to be stated to get "MM" and "DD" to equal "any"?

Retrieve Information Using Date Field?
I have a table called Event. In the table I have a date field. I want to Select specific fields and retrive events from the begining of this month to the end of february. In other words, 3 months span.

This is what I have,

SELECT EventDate, EventID, EventTitle, Event, DeptCode
FROM Events
WHERE DeptCode == '2'
ORDER BY EventDate ASC

Now my question is how do I ask for events in 3 monts span.