On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 08:54:30AM -0500, Jan de Visser wrote: > It gets better: The problem is not just feb 35, it's also that it doesn't warn > you that it didn't like the input format: Actually it did, sort of. > mysql> insert into test values ('35-Feb-2007'); > Query OK, 1 row affected, 1 warning (0.07 sec) ^^^^^^^^^ mysql> show warnings; +---------+------+-----------------------------------------+ | Level | Code | Message | +---------+------+-----------------------------------------+ | Warning | 1265 | Data truncated for column 'td' at row 1 | +---------+------+-----------------------------------------+ 1 row in set (0.00 sec) Not as good as "ERROR: hey bonehead, there ain't no such date" but at least it's something :-) -- Michael Fuhr