Re: date insertion error

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| The first thing you do after connecting to oracle in the VB app:
| alter session set nls_date_format='DD-MON-YYYY';
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| ... or whatever date format you like to have in your application as long
| as you use that format when you code against the database.
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| The nls_date_format can be set in several different places. The alter
| session overrides them all.
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| Janne
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be careful with the ALTER SESSION unless you're in an environtment with good coding standards

until last month i used to advocate basically the same thing -- i'd include an ALTER SESSION in the startup code of my packages to ensure that the date format for my package was what i expected

however, we started to get intermittent errors in some of the other packages -- turned out the other developers were doing implicit date conversion, which usually worked, but when their code was run in a shared session (9iAS) that my code had been run in, they would get conversion errors

so ALTER SESSION is good if EVERYBODY does it -- perhaps including it in the authentication code, but definitely making it part of the QA process

• mcs