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The easiest option is to store dates
in numeric or string format - e.g.
20031231
or
'20031231'
for 21st Dec 2003.
-- Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers -- T. Schick Jr One-day tutorials: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/tutorial.html ____Iceland__November (tbc) ____Belgium__November (EOUG event) ____UK_______December (UKOUG conference) Three-day seminar: see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html ____USA__October ____UK___November The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html "Ryan" <rgaffuri_at_cox.net> wrote in message news:3q%gb.54647$0Z5.93_at_lakeread03...Received on Thu Oct 09 2003 - 02:34:03 CDT
> you mentioned a design that will cripple the CBO. The one I know
that is
> common amongst cross platform applications is using layered complex
views
> going up 5-7 layers or more. Ive tested this and find the RBO to be
faster.
> Most of the vendors tell you to use the RBO against that design. I
think
> they choose it so they dont have to change their application layer
when they
> move from one DB to the next. They just change the view syntax.
>
> what other designs cripple the CBO?
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