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Date check on insert.
Posted by: mitch mitch
Date: January 28, 2012 01:01PM

Hi, I was wondering how to verify if a date from a column is smaller than another date from another column.

Bascially, we'll say it's a promotion that goes on from 02-01-2012('promotion_start' column) until 03-01-2012('promotion_end' column). That is good but, what if the ending date is, 01-01-2012('promotion_end' column)?
If it's not good I would like to raise and error/exception.

I tried making a trigger but it's been a while and I could not get it to work. (Kinda rusty on triggers and I couldnt find any decent exemple about dates).
Here it is:

CREATE TRIGGER `test` BEFORE INSERT ON `promotion`
FOR EACH ROW BEGIN BEGIN IF NEW.DATE_FIN_PROMOTION < NEW.DATE_DEBUT_PROMOTION
THEN call exception('Promotion cannot end before start.); END IF; END; END;

I'm not sure where I should post this but I figured here is a good place since I use InnoDB. Also, if it matters I use HeidiSQL.

Thanks



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/28/2012 01:06PM by mitch mitch.

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