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From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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Subject: Convert date and time colums to datetime
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The database has a table with separate date and time columns.

1. Are there benefits to merging the two into a single timestamp column?

2. If so, how would I do this? (Reading date/time operators and functions
doc page hasn't shown me one.)

TIA,

Rich