Re: V6 and Year 2000

From: Dave Mausner <dmausner_at_brauntech.com>
Date: 1997/01/23
Message-ID: <5c86ia$dt4_001@news.psi.net>#1/1

In article <5c6djv$loj_at_news.inforamp.net>, river_at_ipoline.com (River) wrote:
>
>We're a small company which is still using Oracle V6 happily, now
that
>Year 2000 is getting closer now. Just wondering what is the
earliest
>release of Oracle which has the Year 2000 comptability??

dates stored as oracle DATE datatype are immune from year 2000 problems in all versions of oracle. no upgrade is required.

the interpretation of 2-digit years in character strings with respect to century boundaries was first available in version 7.2.

Dave Mausner, Managing Consultant, Braun Technology Group, Chicago. Received on Thu Jan 23 1997 - 00:00:00 CST