Forum Post: Dumpspecified with CHAR DateTime

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I have a customer with a CHAR field that contains "YYYYMMDDHHMMSS". If I want to dumpspecified the past 2 years, is it sufficient to say: _proutil db -C dumpspecified table.chardate GE "20120910000000" Yes there is an index on the field. I'm looking for GOTCHAs. I understand that if the data is dirty then I risk garbage in - garbage out. Am I wrong to believe that the CHAR field will sort correctly? Paul

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