Re: Join three fields into one on same table

Is there a good reason to NOT store the year month and day as a date
instead of this way?

I can think of a lot of very good reasons to store it as a date, not a
lot of reasons to store them broken apart.

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 4:51 AM, jrivero <godsea(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Hi, i need help for a query. I have three fields, year, month and day
> into table and need join and update another field named date on same
> table.
>
> My problem is not that make update query.
>
> With this query have the value of the update:
>> select year || '-' || month || '-' || day || ' 01:00:00' as newdate from table
>
> but this another query not have correct syntax...
>> update table set date=(select year || '-' || month || '-' || day || ' 01:00:00' as newdate from table)
>
> Regards,
> Jordi
>
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