How to insert time 2009-09-22 18:09:37.881 in MYSQL My column type is DateTime

Question

How to insert time 2009-09-22 18:09:37.881 in mysql. Actually I can insert and retrieve the time 2009-09-22 18:09:37 in mysql but whenever I am try

Answer 1

Having had a quick scan on the MySQL reference pages here, they seem to suggest that you cannot add milliseconds to a column of type datetime. The direct quote is

"However, microseconds cannot be stored into a column of any temporal data type. Any microseconds part is discarded."

This implies that you cannot use Timestamp either.

Are the miliseconds necessary? Could they be stored in a secondary column and then recombined with the basic datetime upon retrieval?