I have an INT (11) column for storing the current timestamp in seconds. The query looks like:
INSERT INTO `abc` (id, timestamp) VALUES ('', UNIX_TIMESTAMP ( NOW () ) )
I don't know why, but the date isn't changed. It doesn't matter when I send the query, the column value isn't changed. It has 1342692014 value, but I don't know why.
Is there any option or other function for timestamps? I must store dates in seconds.
You never refer to the timestamp
column in your query. You only have a string:
INSERT INTO `abc` (id, 'timestamp') VALUES ('', UNIX_TIMESTAMP ( NOW () ) )
^^^^^^^^^^^
Edit:
I get this with your updated code:
ERROR 1630 (42000): FUNCTION test.NOW does not exist. Check the
'Function Name Parsing and Resolution' section in the Reference Manual
Assuming it's not still the actual code and after fixing the syntax error, I can't reproduce your results. My educated guess is that id
is an auto-incremented integer primary key, your current SQL mode is making MySQL take ''
as NULL
and inserting a new row... But I haven't really tested this hypothesis.
My working code is this:
CREATE TABLE `abc` (
`pk` INT(10) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`id` VARCHAR(10) NULL DEFAULT NULL,
`timestamp` INT(11) NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
PRIMARY KEY (`pk`)
)
ENGINE=InnoDB;
INSERT INTO abc (id, timestamp) VALUES ('', UNIX_TIMESTAMP());
-- Wait a few seconds
INSERT INTO abc (id, timestamp) VALUES ('', UNIX_TIMESTAMP());
-- Wait a few seconds
INSERT INTO abc (id, timestamp) VALUES ('', UNIX_TIMESTAMP());
SELECT timestamp FROM abc WHERE id='';
... and returns this:
+------------+
| timestamp |
+------------+
| 1342694445 |
| 1342694448 |
| 1342694450 |
+------------+
3 rows in set (0.00 sec)