Re: [Pytables-users] Best Practice

[Anthony S. <sc...@gm...>]

Hi Damien,

I generally find it best, when storing date and/or times to use the
TimeCol64(), which basically just stores the timestamp (ie the float-number
of seconds since epoch).

Be Well
Anthony

On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:42 AM, Damien Klassen <dam...@gm...>wrote:

> Hopefully an easy one for someone out there!
>
> Am trying to transfer some of my existing calculations from a relational DB
> into pytables to speed up a range of calculations. One of the problems is
> that the data has irregular dates and I'm not sure where to do the
> processing.
>
> For example:
>
> Date     Measure1     Measure2
> '20110912'         5                    10
> '20110911'         5                    10
> '20110912'         5                    10
> '20110912'         5                    10
>
>
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