Re: ORACLE and the Y2K

From: Michael J. Hillanbrand II -- Dulcian, Inc. <mjhii_at_pop.erols.com>
Date: 1996/08/15
Message-ID: <32135935.5B73_at_pop.erols.com>#1/1


Karen Schmidt wrote:
>
> Does anyone know of or have references to glitches/problems/etc. with
> ORACLE and the Year 2000? We are currently running ORACLE 7 and will be
> converting our Forms v3 to v4.5.

Oracle does not and will not have any problems relating to dates until approximatley 6047 A.D. and I am sure they will slip in a patch by mid september of the year prior to that.

That is if you use Oracle DATE formats. Any code which is dependent upon a CHAR or NUMBER or VARCHAR2 representation is the responsibility of the coder.

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Received on Thu Aug 15 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST

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