Re: Question: How will the Year 2000 bug impact your work?

Check borland's Web Sight ( www.borland.com/firehose/05-27-96.html ) This is a great article on the year 2000. -- Tony Di Lullo MicroTech TDL inc. Montreal (Quebec) email - tdl@total.net Matt Bovee <mbovee@eagle.cc.ukans.edu> wrote in article <325E9B5F.752A@eagle.cc.ukans.edu>... : Hi, : : I am currently preparing a graduate paper on the impact of the Year 2000 (Y2K) : bug on databases, database applications, and database management. Specific areas : of interest to me and the group to whom it will be presented are: : : Active Databases, : Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, : Data Warehouses, : Deductive Databases, : Fuzzy Databases/Logic/Queries, : GIS, : Image Databases, : Knowledge-bases, : Online Databases, : OO Databases, and : Text & Document Databases. : : If you work with one or more of the above, and have specific examples of how the : Y2K bug is going to affect you, the database(s), or the way you do work, and how : you (or others) are specifically addressing the problem, would you please : respond either on the NG or via e-mail (address below, too)? : : If you don't know about Y2K, but can at least give me an idea of how data with : date fields or date information is used in any of the particular specialties : above, whether your particular area of databasing uses primarily two-digit date : fields, and the potential impact of having the year field "roll-over" to "00", : that would be just as good. : : Any and all assistance will be most helpful. Thanks, : : Matt Bovee : University of Kansas : Lawrence, KS : mbovee@ukanvm.cc.ukans.edu : (or if the first address fails, try mbovee@ukans.edu or : mbovee@eagle.cc.ukans.edu) :