Re: New Survey 53% Finished,nearly or more than 1/2 finished

[Jon Paris <paris@xxxxxxxxxx>]

>>" I'm predicting healthy DASD sales - saving DASD is why everyone lopped
off those century digits anyway!  I know we are planning quite a few
extra gig! "<<

If you use the Date data type in the new database, you won't use any extra
storage at all!  It only occupies 4 bytes - the same as a 6 digit packed
field.

And before you reject this idea on the basis of performance, make sure you read
the articles on Dates and the Year 2000 that Ron Hawkins and Doug Pence wrote
for Midrange Computing.  To my mind the _only_ common sense articles that I've
seen on the subject !!


Jon Paris - AS/400 AD Market Support - paris@ca.ibm.com
Phone: (416) 448-4019   -   Fax: (416) 448-4414
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