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December 28, 2005 -Vol.219-
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Flashback II
Hi, everyone. We will continue the experiment not finished last time.

Environment
Microsoft Windows XP Pro
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.1.0.2.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

Experiment
Please refer to the previous article for the tests we did last time.
SQL> select * from flashback_test
     as of timestamp systimestamp - interval '10' minute;

No record is selected.

Maybe we went back too far. Let's try the other way by specifying SCN.

SQL> select ora_rowscn,col1,col2 from flashback_test
     as of scn  2514278

ORA_ROWSCN COL1  COL2
---------- ----- -----
   2514278 1     111
   2514278 2     222
   2514278 3     333
   2514278 4     444
   2514278 5     555

We can also copy the data at a certain time point into a table as follows.

SQL> create table flashback_test_bk as select * from flashback_test where col1=0;
Table created.

SQL> insert into flashback_test_bk select col1,col2 from flashback_test
     as of scn  2514278;
5 rows created.

SQL> select * from flashback_test_bk;

COL1  COL2
----- -----
1     111
2     222
3     333
4     444
5     555

SQL> commit;

Committed.

However, when the table structure is changed, the data query will become invalid.

SQL> truncate table flashback_test;

Table is truncated.

SQL> select col1,col2 from flashback_test as of scn  2514278;
select col1,col2 from flashback_test as of scn  2514278
                      *
Error occurs at row 1:
ORA-01466: unable to read data - table definition has changed

That is all for today.

Takahisa Omichi

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