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Message Posted: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 @ 13:56:53 GMT

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Alas, no. TIME and TIMESTAMP are particularly finicky, perhaps because they are trying to conform to ANSI definitions. If you want to load a TIME field, it must be in ANSI format, namely hh:mm:ss (8 bytes) or hh:mm:ss.dddddd (15 bytes). Since you want TIME(0), you should do this:

- write an INMOD to reformat the field to 8 bytes, putting colons in;

- define the input field to FastLoad as char(8);

- insert into the table as :in_char_field. Do not specify a data conversion.

Strange as it may seem, this will work.

--wgr

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