Re: Rumours

From: Pete Sharman <psharman_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 1999 10:03:35 -0700
Message-ID: <377CF0E7.3E56D7AA@us.oracle.com>

Ken

Agreed. I don't know of any known problems not addressed by patches, but that would be a better question to run by Support.

Pete

Kenneth C Stahl wrote:

> I understand what you are saying - however, I also know that Oracle has issued some
> patches which are specifically aimed at correcting Y2K problems with the rdbms.
> Obviously these patches are changing something other than the way that the data is
> stored in tables. That being the case it is still a legitimate question to ask whether
> there are known Y2K problems with 7.3.3 which have not been and will not be corrected
> by patches because 7.3.3 has gone non-support.
>
> Ken
>
> Pete Sharman wrote:
>
> > 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 Fri Jul 02 1999 - 12:03:35 CDT