Nabin Nepal (Starx) mysql
April 1, 2016

How to create time attribute in SQL?

Agus Maloco’s Question:

Agus MalocoAgus Maloco

I tried to create a table this way:

create table attendance (
      userId char(10) primary key not null, 
      name varchar(35) not null, 
      date_attendance date not null, 
      start_time timestamp 'HH24:MI:SS', 
      finish_time timestamp 'HH24:MI:SS'
);

Am I right about creating the time fields this way or there is some better option?

StarxStarx

Timestamp will hold both date and time. There is data type time as well, which might be better suited for your use case.

CREATE TABLE attendance (
      userId char(10) primary key not null, 
      name varchar(35) not null, 
      date_attendance date not null, 
      start_time time,
      finish_time time
);

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