Question

I’m trying to implement this query with Qt:

mysqlpp::Query query = acdb.query();
query << "INSERT INTO jobs (jobType, creationDate, reelType)     
VALUES('ARCHIVE', NOW(), '" + reelType + "')";

where NOW() returns the current date and time.

This my code on Qt:

QSqlQuery query;
query.prepare("INSERT INTO jobs (jobType, creationDate, reelType) VALUES ('ARCHIVE', 
'NOW()', '" + reelType + "')");

here NOW returns 0000-00-00 00:00:00

Is there a similar function?

Answer 1

You are trying to insert the string value 'NOW()' into the datetime field, hence resulting in an invalid value:

"INSERT INTO jobs (jobType, creationDate, reelType) VALUES ('ARCHIVE', 
'NOW()', '" + reelType + "')");

Replace it with:

"INSERT INTO jobs (jobType, creationDate, reelType) VALUES ('ARCHIVE', 
NOW(), '" + reelType + "')");

Btw. NOW() is a pure SQL function. It doesn’t matter which platform or framework you use to send the query, it is entirely evaluated by the SQL server.