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At 12:21 PM 6/7/97 EDT, you wrote:
>
>RE:    Re: Year 2000
>
><SNIP>
>
>>Doing a Y2K conversion AND converting to ILE is a bit ambitious, don't you
>>think?  It was my understanding that there were some performance problems
>>with the date data types at one point, is this still the case?
>>Regards!
>>Dean Asmussen
>
>To heck with the performance issue.  I bet the files you have to day, You
>(and more importantly) and your users will be using well beyond the year
>2000.  They will be using(or wishing they could) Date type functions 
>(durations, etc) even MUCH more 2-3 years from now than they do today.  
>
>What if IBM 2 years from now made the date performance FANTASTIC.
>You wouldn't be able to justify converting then could you. 
>The whole Y2K issue is a testimony to the great forsight and planning
>us IS professionals have had.  By implementing 8 byte numerics we 
>(IMHO) are continuing in that grand tradition.

The problem with date data types is more than performance.  Zero dates are
special values are not supported.  Also invalid dates blow up.  How clean
is your data?  Do you have a field in your A/R system for 'date paid'? Do
you have a field in your payroll system for 'date of termination'?

It's not that straight forward.

Al

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