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We tried that on a test database with no problems at all. The only issue was
that all unix passwords expired (obviously) and we couldn't get on to the
unix box :-). But no Oracle problems.
Dennis Richter wrote in message ...
>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 Tue Apr 20 1999 - 00:31:52 CDT