SQL Current Time

[Mark Hughes]

Hi all,

Is it possible to get a time stamp in SQL in the format of a long datatype similar to the java Method System.currentTimeMillis() .

I know sql has functions similar to SELECT NOW(); which return something like "2009-06-05 16:10:09" , but i would like to hava a method to return it as a long number. As i have saved alot of my time instances in the database as long numbers and now i have the need to do a select based on the current time and instance of a saved long number. I dont think a SELECT statement would work if i tried something like SELECT .... WHERE (SELECT NOW()) < column.TimeMillisAsLong.

Best
Mark Hughes

[Paul Sturrock]

What wrong with:

PreparedStatement ps = conn.prepareStatement("select ... where ? < column");
ps.setDate(1, new Date(System.currentTimeInMillis()));
ps.executeQuery() ;

[Mark Hughes]

Thanks Paul i did not think of that, very good. Ill give it a go.

Best
Mark Hughes