Re: Rumours

Jonathan

I can understand the frustration here. It's always annoying to be told one thing and then another. Do you have official documentation on the message you've been delivered? The reason I ask is I think we're looking at two different issues here and that may cause confusion. One is what versions are Y2K compliant (I always type complaint for that and then have to fix it - I wonder if that's "Freudian fingers"?!), and the other is officially supported versions. If you look at the Y2K paper on Oracle's web site, it specifically says:

"...desupported versions of Oracle7, starting with 7.1 and higher, are Year 2000 compliant, although they do have known issues that may affect some users and therefore should be considered."

If you have something documented from Oracle that says otherwise, we need to fix it. Maybe it could be logged as a documentation bug? ;)

HTH. Pete

Jonathan Lewis wrote:

> The question of how Oracle stores the date
> is not relevant. The point is: which database
> versions are deemed to be year 2000 compliant
> for support purposes, and the message delivered
> to the Unix SIG of the UKOUG by the official
> Oracle rep a short time ago was that for many
> platforms 7.3.4 is it.
>
> Naturally this caused a significant amount of
> grief since many of the attendees had completed
> their Year 2000 testing based on the statement
> made about a year ago that support purposes 7.3.3
> was the target version.
>
> --
>
> Jonathan Lewis (Chairman UKOUG Unix SIG)
> Yet another Oracle-related web site: www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk
>
> Pete Sharman wrote in message <377BC7A2.185EC088_at_us.oracle.com>...
> >OK, let's travel the road again. Seems I've been down this road a dozen
> times
> >now.
> >
> >Due to the way Oracle stores dates, the RDBMS in any release of version 8,
> 7, and
> >probably back to the year dot has not had an issue with Y2K, unless there
> has been
> >a bug. The century is always stored.
> >
> >How your ***application*** deals with displaying it is another issue.
> >

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Regards

Pete

Received on Thu Jul 01 1999 - 16:58:10 CDT