Re: Y2K Testing

From: Charles E. Schroeder <cschroe_at_ibm.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 1999 13:27:59 -0500
Message-ID: <7ffsdl$cp4@wiscnews.wiscnet.net>

If it were me (and it was recently) I'd take a full backup of my system and database, dial up the date, do the test, and then restore back to original conditions.

Charles

>My application development team want's me to down my Oracle instance,
change
>the date on the server to sometime in the year 2000, then up the Oracle
>instance so they can do some Y2K testing.
>
>I'm concerned that if I do this and then change the date back to 1999, that
>I'll corrupt something in Oracle. Has anyone ever tried to do this? Will
I
>corrupt Oracle, or are all headers updated with the SCN and not a valid
>date/time stamp?
>
>Any advise will be appreciated.
>
>
Received on Mon Apr 19 1999 - 13:27:59 CDT