Posted by --CELKO-- on 10/01/39 11:39

>>Standard to which DBMS? <<

Unh? That senternce makes no sense in the database world. ANSI/ISO
Standards apply to all vendor products. The product either meets or
fails them. Vendors do not set their own privates Standards (note the
capital S).

>> Certainly not Oracle. <<

Oracle is still a nightmare of non-conformance to ANSI/ISO, X/Open, etc
Standards, as well as expensive and hard to use. It is a kind of
"Hillbilly dialect" of SQL :)

>> I will submit passing date strings without a proper format specifier is poor coding: <<

Did you know that SQL has one and only one allowed date format?
Apparently not. It is based on ISO-8601, a Standard used in many other
ISO standards.

"Caesar: Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian and thinks the
customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature." - Caesar and
Cleopatra; George Bernard Shaw 1898

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