Re: Dates in Oracle.. a Y2K question....

On Thu, 13 Aug 1998 15:40:04 GMT, Oracleguru <oracleguru_at_mailcity.com> wrote:
>I must say that you have done your homework and expressed details very
>clearly. I was sloppy, but IMHO this forum is not for explaining every
>thing about each aspect of a subject. The poster of a question is supposed
>to take the ball and run when the question is answered. Most of us do not
>take too much time away from our regular job to answer questions in this
>forum. What I try to do is cut and paste from my notes on a subject and if
>I do have a script I post that too. I do not explain some obvious aspects
>either.

This forum is actually pretty good about giving details. If you are going to cut and paste answers that don't really answer the question, expect people to point that out. Your answer should be directed to the questioner, which may mean if you are answering a simple question, you may have to explain the obvious. If you are going to use a moniker that creates high expectations, you have to deal with the consequences of that, too, which may mean being held to a higher level of quality. Hell, just being a DBA means you aren't allowed to make human miss-steaks [sic].

>
>Arjan van Bentem <avbentem_at_DONT-YOU-DAREdds.nl> wrote in article
><6qsr6a$aiq$1_at_newton.a2000.nl>...

>> True. Until we change from 2049 to 2050. Users who by then are used to
>> entering 49 for 2049 will suddenly notice that 49 yields 2149 as of the
>> system date 2050...
>******Most companies do not want to spend money for the event that far in
>future. Be practical. How ******about year 10000, 100000 ? In year 2050
>I plan to be the Chief DBA on St. Peter's project team
>******figuring out database for trillions or is it zillions of names,
>indexes, openspaces not tablespaces, ******parent-child relationships etc.
>and it may not be even Oracle. Just joking. The technology ******changes
>so fast, the system in operation today will be definitely replaced in 20
>years by something ******better I hope.

Now _that_ misses the entire lesson Y2K teaches!

>
>Oracleguru
>www.oracleguru.net
>oracleguru_at_mailcity.com

jg
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