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Re: newbie question date vs datetime fields?

From: James J. Schmidt <jschmidt_at_dbexperts.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 22:58:13 -0600
Message-ID: <YJ652.22496$eD6.4877@news1.giganews.com> 





an oracle date field is always seven bytes and always holds the
ccyymmddhhmiss format.


as an array of 8 bit integers normalized so that they will never have a
value of zero.



Received on Thu Nov 19 1998 - 22:58:13 CST












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