Hello,

I 've got a client who sends me wine data, and I run a script to clean the data before its uploaded.

The Year column is defined in mysql as year(2), meaning it expresses year as a 2 digit number. Which is fine, except for the fact that several vintages use the value NV (no vintage). mysql converts that into 0, so the outoput from a retreived query is 00. Even if I allow null values and replace all the NV instances with ""(nothing), I still get zero in that cell.

I changed the column type to varchar, which solves the NV issue, but now the years in this century are expressed in single digit form.

So I could do a little regex diddy, but that's totally inelegant. There is probably a better way to work with the database.

I'd be pleased to hear your thoughts.
Thanks

In reply to working with year in mysql by mkahn

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