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Old March 31st, 2004, 09:37 AM
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How to get dates in database to sort properly.
I am trying to have a list in my table output in the order they are loaded by date,

here is my code:
Code:
<!----------- Query DB -------------------->
<cfquery name="Resumes" datasource="Students">
SELECT * FROM Resume ORDER BY PostDate DESC
</cfquery>


But the dates that are output are all messed up, and not in order. Is there something I am missing?
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Old March 31st, 2004, 10:27 AM
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Is postDate a date field or a string field?
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Old March 31st, 2004, 10:53 AM
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It's a date field.
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Old March 31st, 2004, 11:07 AM
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hmm...then I'm not sure. If the date field is holding a valid date value, using that field to order by should order the results by the date. How is the the ordering messed up?
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Output:

11/28/03
3/7/04
3/5/04
3/29/04
3/24/04
3/23/04
3/2/04
3/18/04
3/12/04
3/1/04
1/27/04
1/15/04
2/9/04
12/16/03
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I'm not sure what to tell you on this one. It seems to me there MUST be some problem in the way this has been stored in the database. What database are you using? What is the exact data type of the postdate field? Is it a timestamp field? date type? datetime?

I can run the same type of query on one of my tables:

select create_date from cm_task
order by create_date desc

and the results come back in exactly the right order. The create_date field is of Oracle type "date".
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It's an access database, and I think I figured it out.

The PostDate in the access database wasn't actually set to a Date Field, it was set at Memo .

All good now.
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Is postDate a date field or a string field?
That's what I was getting at with this question. Glad you got straightened out.
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That's what I was getting at with this question. Glad you got straightened out.


Yea, I must have changed it once without knowing....
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