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Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.server -> Re: Oracle 7.3 not Y2K compliant on Digital Unix?
Henk de Wilde wrote:
> On Sat, 2 May 1998 21:54:13 +0100, Jim Smith
> <jim_at_jimsmith.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>
> >We have been told by a third party supplier that Oracle 7.3.2 is not
> >certified Y2K compliant on Digital UNIX 4.0.
> >
> >Does anyone have any details on this? If we have to go through an
> >expensive upgrade, we would like to know why.
> >
>
> That supplier must be using a _very_ restricted definition of Y2K
> compliancy to state this. According to Oracle's definition, and I
> agree, RDBMS version 7 is fully compliant and even version 6 is only
> not compliant insofar as there is no date format mask to facilitate
> two-digit year input.
>
some other poster pointed into the right direction. Before looking at
Oracle,
one needs to check the underlying infrastructure (ie. Digital UNIX).
As it is, the fully supported Y2K release of DU is DU V4.0d.
This has a direct implication on Oracle databases since Oracle certified
only a restricted list of versions for DU V4.0d. According to Oracle's
web
site (), the following Oracle RDBMS releases are DU V4.0d certified:
7.3.3, 7.3.4, 8.0.3, 8.0.4.
So regardless of the Y2K status of 7.3.2 (which i don't know either), the
third party supplier somehow was right. Using DU V4.0d (minimum DU Y2k release), you at least have to move on to 7.3.3.
M.Dolder
...speaking for myself... Received on Fri May 08 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT
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