Dumpspecified with CHAR DateTime

Posted by Paul Koufalis on 10-Sep-2014 21:28

I have a customer with a CHAR field that contains "YYYYMMDDHHMMSS".  If I want to dumpspecified the past 2 years, is it sufficient to say:

_proutil db -C dumpspecified table.chardate GE "20120910000000"

Yes there is an index on the field.

I'm looking for GOTCHAs.  I understand that if the data is dirty then I risk garbage in - garbage out.  Am I wrong to believe that the CHAR field will sort correctly?

Paul

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