Re: Y2K Testing

Ron,

    I'm more concerned in control files and redo log files with date/time stamps that might not allow the instance to come back up. I have been told that this may be the case. No event driven transactions to worry about. Allan

Ron Leedy wrote in message <36E58FB6.EE6D873_at_us.oracle.com>...
>That depends on:
>
> a) what is in your database?
> b) what are you doing in your testing?
> c) what do you consider bad things?
> d) is this your production database?
>
>The biggest problem would be if you have event driven transactions in
>your database or part of your testing. It could trigger those off or
>create unneccessary transactions to kick off later. It will not effect
>any of the system catalogues if that is what is "bad".
>
>Allan Kelly wrote:
>>
>> What happens if I reset my shutdown my database, set the system date to
 the
>> year 2000, run my tests, shutdown the database, reset the date to the
>> current date, and re-start the database? Do bad things happen?
>
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