If you are on 9.2 and your application is using Oracle's thin jdbc drivers to connect to the database, you might want to take a trip to Metalink and check out bug# 3037615. There is a test case provided in the bug description as well as possible workarounds. Sten -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Moynahan Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2004 12:37 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Timestamp - to be or not to be? Hi, Are there any technical reasons not to go forth with timestamp instead of date datatype? Are there any gotcha's by converting to timestamp? If an application doesn't use fractions of a second is there any real need to use timestamp datatype? Thanks, Mark ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------