[78-L] 78 database

[David London]

All proper databases will handle text fields, so there isn't a problem
storing the date as a text (or varchar ot whatever).  However, if
proper dates are sren't used, sorting can by hit and miss (unless you
are very strict with date formats) and date arithmetic cannot be
performed.  But, given that so many dates are missing or incomplete,
we have to use text formats.

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net> wrote:
>>
> If all else fails, try to find/acquire a copy of dBase; its files are
> basically
> text files, with a short descriptive header at the "top" of each file. I
> don't
> think it will allow date entries like mm-"??"-yyyy, however...?!
>
> Steven C. Barr
>
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