(Fwd) RE: What's wrong with UnixDate("30000101","%Y%m%d")?

From: Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce_at_pobox.com)
Date: 03/31/04


Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:15:52 +0100
To: dbi-users@perl.org


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From: Roger Reid <roger.reid@veritas.com>
To: "'Tim Bunce'" <Tim.Bunce@pobox.com>
Subject: RE: What's wrong with UnixDate("30000101","%Y%m%d")?
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 19:39:19 -0500

Tim,

What modules would I need to have in order to connect to a Microsoft 2003
Database from a Solaris machine? I need to do some DB inserts, but having a
Wintel machine on the other side is posing a problem. Thanks for any
reference.

-rr

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Bunce [mailto:Tim.Bunce@pobox.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 5:31 PM
> To: Laurie Vien
> Cc: 'Tim Bunce'; 'dbi-users@perl.org'
> Subject: Re: What's wrong with UnixDate("30000101","%Y%m%d")?
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 05:46:19PM -0500, Laurie Vien wrote:
> > ok, sorry. will not use it for non-dbi questions in the future.
>
> Thanks Laurie. I know it seems harsh but I have to protect the
> integrity of the list.
>
> Tim.
>
> > thankfully several people were kind enough to send me
> answers anyway!!
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Tim Bunce [mailto:Tim.Bunce@pobox.com]
> > Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 5:45 PM
> > To: Laurie Vien
> > Cc: 'dbi-users@perl.org'
> > Subject: Re: What's wrong with UnixDate("30000101","%Y%m%d")?
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 04:40:50PM -0500, Laurie Vien wrote:
> > > I know this isn't a DBI-specific question, but some of
> you are familiar
> > with
> > > what I've been doing so I thought I'd post here:
> >
> > It's still an abuse of the list and the several thousand people it.
> > There are pleanty of other forums for non-DBI-specific questions.
> >
> > Tim.
>

----- End forwarded message -----



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