Difference between revisions of "SET TIMESTAMP"

Revision as of 12:51, 4 February 2013

Purpose

Enable a timestamp to be inserted into the specified field as a record is being appended

Syntax

SET TIMESTAMP TO <fieldname>

See Also

APPEND BLANK, CLEAR TIMELINE, LIST TIMELINE, ROLLBACK TIMELINE, INSERT, SET TIMELINE, SYSTIMELINE, TIME(), TIMELINE(), TIMEOFDAY()

Description

The SET TIMESTAMP command defines a field in the current table to be used as a timestamp. When records are subsequently added to the table, the current system time will be inserted into the <fieldname> field.

Example

open database southwind
alter table example add column timeref char(8)
use example
set timestamp to timeref
// timeref field will be populated with current system time
append blank
use
// timeref field will be populated with current system time
insert into example (account_no, last_name) values ("99999", "Smith")