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by dspillett 3977 days ago
And mySQL of old.

I assume things are much better now, but I remember a time when things like INSERT <table> (<date_field>) VALUES ('2015-02-30') would not have raised any sort of error, amongst other terrible things that people would defend having to implement explicit checks for in other layers of your application.

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> I assume things are much better now

Nope: http://grimoire.ca/mysql/choose-something-else