Re: Oracle Date datatype Y2K Issues

From: Alex Norman <alex_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1998 09:47:14 -0800
Message-ID: <3651B6A1.EE45D72F@hotmail.com>

Oracle date format is fully Y2K compliant. Oracle stores the complete date which includes date, month, year, time. You can retrieve the date in whatever format you need.

Sanjay Hans wrote:

> Would appreciate your suggestions on Oracle Date datatype Y2K issue.
>
> Is it sufficient to issue the following commands to ensure that all the
> date datatype fields in
> the database are Y2K compliant:
> alter session set nls_date_format ='DD-MON-YYYY' for each connection to
> Oracle session and then insert/ update the date fields in the tables.
> Or I should use 'DDMMRR' format to insert/update values in the date
> datatype fields.
>
> Thanks in advance.
Received on Tue Nov 17 1998 - 11:47:14 CST