Syntax Rules for Describing the Data Stream
<standard_date_mask> ::= EUR | INTERNAL | ISO | JIS | USA
YYYY |
Year (four digits) |
'MM' |
Month (two digits, 01-12) |
'DD' |
Day (two digits, 01-31) |
Format |
General Form |
Example |
EUR |
'DD.MM.YYYY' |
'23.01.2003' |
INTERNAL |
'YYYYMMDD' |
'20030123' |
ISO/JIS |
'YYYY-MM-DD' |
'2003-01-23' |
USA |
'MM/DD/YYYY' |
'01/23/2003' |
Day and month entries must have two digits. In all formats except INTERNAL, the year must have two or four digits. In the format INTERNAL, the year must have four digits.
Use the standard date definition to specify the format for plain-text values in which DATE columns are entered and displayed.
The default value in the Loader is INTERNAL.
· If you use this standard date definition in the SET command, then you also specify the date format for all subsequent commands. In a single Loader session, this applies until a new SET command is executed.
Date format in the SET command
SET DATE ISO
· You can change the specified date format for individual commands. For more information, see Date Format.
Date format in a command
CREATE TABLE d_test (col1 DATE)
//
INSERT INTO d_test VALUES (DATE)
//
DATAEXTRACT * FROM d_test
OUTSTREAM 'd_test.data'
DATE ISO
Example for the
content of the target data stream
?2003-05-15?