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From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan@exxesolutions.com>
Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server
Subject: Re: MySQL 4
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2003 08:33:04 -0700
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ctcgag@hotmail.com wrote:

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> So when I pull a future date out of my ass for the DOB, it yells at me and
> tells me to reach in for a past date for the DOB?  That's a functionality I
> think I can do without, if the price is right.
>
> Xho
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Then obviously your experience with medical, insurance, and other demographic
applications is rather limited.

I can count in the thousands the times I have had to clean up databases where
people were born and transactions occured in the future ... sometimes hundreds
of years in the future. The City of Seattle Washington has a database of which
I am familiar in which many things are entered in the years 2991 and 3001 and
that is hardly an exception to the rule.

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Daniel Morgan
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damorgan@x.washington.edu
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