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by greg
Wed Aug 16, 2006 10:01 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: SQL Server Binary TimeStamp
Replies: 6
Views: 3198

OK so I can stop pulling out my hair, "Thanks Bill Gates and MicroSoft". I talked to my DBA and they sent me the following. It is not about the time the row was created or updated. Instead, it is a sequence number. Here is some more information: timestamp The SQL Server timestamp data type...
by greg
Tue Aug 15, 2006 4:50 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> Infosphere DataStage Server Edition
Topic: SQL Server Binary TimeStamp
Replies: 6
Views: 3198

SQL Server Binary TimeStamp

I'm trying to select a timestamp from SQL Server using ODBC connection, the Table Def has the field as Binary and so it returns the value 30303030303030303031463635444644, if I put it through OCONV I get 7481BC-08-12 -03:00:44. But if I change the SQL Type to integer, the Length to 10 and the Data E...
by greg
Tue Apr 04, 2006 1:23 pm
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Oracle Date being returned as *'s
Replies: 3
Views: 1114

Has nothing to do with that, in the Oracle stage the field is defined as Timestamp, when doing a view data of the Oracle stage I get *'s for only the 01-01-4712 00:00:00 data. It happens in the Oracle stage before it gets to the transformation stage. waht is ur data type in target dataset? if its ch...
by greg
Tue Apr 04, 2006 11:47 am
Forum: IBM<sup>®</sup> DataStage Enterprise Edition (Formerly Parallel Extender/PX)
Topic: Oracle Date being returned as *'s
Replies: 3
Views: 1114

Oracle Date being returned as *'s

I have a condition that has a date in Oracle of Jan 1 4712, I've been told this actually is a negative number in oracle, when I use a Server Job it will pull the date out as 4712-01-01 00:00:00 but when I use a Parallel Job I get *'s returned. I want to use a Parallel Job but also need to have the d...