Re: Insert date/time on trigger

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From: Wayne Niddery [TeamB]
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2002 17:20

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"Rim Ranshuijsen" <rim@novicom.nl> wrote in message
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>
> i'm using D6 and Interbase 6
> I want to insert the system time from database server when a new record is
> inserted, so i tried the folowing trigger:
>
> SET TERM !! ;
> CREATE TRIGGER DOCUMENT_INSERT_DATE FOR DOCUMENTS
>  BEFORE INSERT AS
>  BEGIN
>   NEW.INSERTDATE = date();
>  END !!
>
> SET TERM ; !!

Change "date()" to CURRENT_DATE.

Note that you can set this up as a default value for the field in the table
definition so you don't need a trigger:

CREATE TABLE MYTABLE (
KEY INTEGER NOT NULL,
INSERTDATE DATE NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_DATE
)


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