Date, Time, and Timestamp Escapes The escape sequence for date, time, and timestamp literals is: {literal-type 'value'} where literal-type is one of the following: literal-type Description Value Format d Date yyyy-mm-dd t Time hh:mm:ss [1] ts Timestamp yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss[.f...] Example: UPDATE Orders SET OpenDate={d '1997-01-29'} WHERE OrderID=1023