Comments on: How can I use ColdFusion 5 to insert a date and time into a SQL Server 2000 datetime field?

Question: How can I use ColdFusion 5 to insert a date and time into a SQL Server 2000 datetime field?

kirkaracha — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 12:01:24 -0800

How can I use ColdFusion 5 to insert a date and time into a SQL Server 2000 datetime field? [more inside]

Here's my code:



<cfset modStartTime = CreateDateTime(2004,04,17,modStartHour,form.startMinute,00)>

<cfset modEndTime = CreateDateTime(2004,04,17,modEndHour,form.endMinute,00)>



<cfset EventStartTime = CreateODBCTime(modStartTime)>

<cfset EventEndTime = CreateODBCTime(modEndTime)>



<cfquery name="addEvent" datasource="calday">

	INSERT INTO Events(EventStartTime,EventEndTime)

	VALUES(<cfqueryparam value="#EventStartTime#" cfsqltype="CF_SQL_DATE">,

			<cfqueryparam value="#EventEndTime#" cfsqltype="CF_SQL_DATE">

			)

</cfquery>

By: mkultra

mkultra — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 15:31:23 -0800

So what's the problem? I'm not in front of my cf server, but I don't see anything obviously wrong with your code. Is there an error?

Or is this all just part of a new answer-my-own-question MetaAskMetafilter ;) ?

By: kirkaracha

kirkaracha — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 16:35:53 -0800

I was getting a data conversion error. I eventually got it to work by changing CF_SQL_DATE to CF_SQL_TIMESTAMP (even though the SQL field is not a timestamp) and changing EventStartTime to:
<cfset EventStartTime = "2004-04-17 #modStartHour#:#form.startMinute#:00">