I need to insert a year(eg:1988 ,1990 etc) in a database. When I used Date or Datetime data type, it is showing errors. Which datatype should I use.
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I need to insert a year(eg:1988 ,1990 etc) in a database. When I used Date or Datetime data type, it is showing errors. Which datatype should I use.
If you need to store a year in the database, you would either want to use an Integer datatype (if you are dead set on only storing the year) or a DateTime datatype (which would involve storing a date that basically is 1/1/1990 00:00:00 in format).