AW: Default date in SQL

A date is always stored as scaliger no (numeric value - representing the number of days since 01/01/4713 BC).
SQL is able to translate any character string in one of the following formats into a real date: YYYY-MM-DD, DD.MM.YYYY, MM/DD/YYYY.
Date formats are only used for making this scaliger no readable.
The (current) date format to be can be changed in your environment.
Even though a current date format with a 2 digit year is used and the maximum value of a date cannot be displayed, the maximum date can be inserted correctly into date fields (without any error).

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Von: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Jeff Young
Gesendet: Tuesday, 22.12 2015 21:41
An: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Betreff: Re: Default date in SQL

Isn't that beyond the maximum year for a DATE field?

Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 3:25 PM, Jeff Crosby <jlcrosby@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

DEFAULT '9999-12-31' ?

On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Raul A Jager W <raul@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I want to create a table with a date field that has "maxvalue" as
default, but SQL rejects it.
I think it is because that is not a date, is there a way to define
the max date?

TIA,
Raúl

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