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Revision as of 06:46, 10 December 2012
Contents
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")