>Ed,
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>Hmm..thanks for your tip. I guess a little of that will be a lot helpful already.
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>About the Y2K advice, I'm using the "03/99" as my month and put them as character date type. So far, I'm not much dealing with the Y2K problem yet, since this is what I'm working as my homework (student). But from what you said, setting date as character type creates a long-term problem. Not much understand what you mean.
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lets take a simple example where you want things sorted in ascending order, and you have an entry in December of 1999, which you've stored as 12/99, and another in January of 2000, which you've stored as 01/00. You use your sort expression given in the sample code. Which one will appear first?