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>>Standard to which DBMS? <<
Unh? That senternce makes no sense in the database world. ANSI/ISO Standards apply to all vendor products. The product either meets or fails them. Vendors do not set their own privates Standards (note the capital S).
>> Certainly not Oracle. <<
Oracle is still a nightmare of non-conformance to ANSI/ISO, X/Open, etc Standards, as well as expensive and hard to use. It is a kind of "Hillbilly dialect" of SQL :)
>> I will submit passing date strings without a proper format specifier is poor coding: <<
Did you know that SQL has one and only one allowed date format? Apparently not. It is based on ISO-8601, a Standard used in many other ISO standards.
"Caesar: Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian and thinks the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature." - Caesar and Cleopatra; George Bernard Shaw 1898 Received on Thu Feb 09 2006 - 21:15:39 CST