Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hBAMUst09917 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:30:54 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.27.56.212 Received: from www3.fatcity.com (rrcs-west-66-27-56-212.biz.rr.com [66.27.56.212]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hBAMUso09912 for ; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 16:30:54 -0600 Received: (from root@localhost) by www3.fatcity.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id hBAMQBB03275 for oracle-l@orafaq.com; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:26:11 -0800 Received: by fatcity.com (05-Jun-2003/v1.0g-b73/bab) via fatcity.com id 005D9766; Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:29:25 -0800 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2003 14:29:25 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L X-Comment: Oracle RDBMS Community Forum X-Sender: "Jesse, Rich" Sender: ml-errors@fatcity.com Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com Errors-To: ML-ERRORS@fatcity.com From: "Jesse, Rich" Subject: RE: char is going away? Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California X-ListServer: v1.0g, build 73; ListGuru (c) 1996-2003 Bruce A. Bergman Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ROTFL! Completely blocked the fact out of my mind that this app started out using InterBase (aka "StarBase"). It didn't change to Oracle until we lost a day's worth of ERP because a Windohs PC crashed that was running a telnet session to the server and didn't disconnect from the app/DB properly. Noooo, that would *never* happen! Ah, those good ol' days weren't that good... Rich Rich Jesse System/Database Administrator rjesse@qtiworld.com Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 12:09 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L On 12/10/2003 12:44:26 PM, "Jesse, Rich" wrote: > Did I mention that this application also RELIES on the OCI bug that allows a > date column to contain a zero (as opposed to the zero-date) that can't be > done thru normal SQL? That is, probably, because your application supports conversion to stardate. Beam me up, Rich. Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jesse, Rich INET: Rich.Jesse@qtiworld.com Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).