I have SQL Server management studio express, which I use to manage a database for my website, which is hosted on a shared server in cyberspace.
I have been using 'getdate()' as a default in many of my tables, for a field that I name "dateEntered". So when records are added to these tables, the date and time that they were added is inserted as well.
Now I want to place all the getdate()'s by getutcdate().
That way, no matter what time zone the server database is hosted at, I can base my date calculations on a standard time zone.
The database is full of test data now, but not real data.
So I could delete the database, after scripting the whole database to a sql file, and doing a find/replace of getdate/getutcdate and then executing the script to create the database.
However, perhaps there is a stored procedure I could write that would allow me not to lose all my test data, and yet accomplish the same thing.
Is that feasible?
Thanks.