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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 05:58:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
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Subject: Re: Convert date and time colums to datetime
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On Mon, 20 Oct 2025, Rob Sargent wrote:

>> Okay. Now I'm curious: why do you write this?

> The way I read your description of how you use these columns currently
> suggests to me that they could be handled by a single timestamp column.
> The cost/benefit of converting is another thing altogether.

Rob,

Since either way works I'll save the time cost of converting because my
tables will never be really large.

Thanks,

Rich