Re: Is there a way to find a timestamp of a row

Prem K Mehrotra wrote:
>
> When I look in any of my tabls in Oracle database, I can get rowid for
> each
> row, but is there a way to find the time when that row was created. I
> don't want to store cretaion time of a row as a column in my table.
> Does Oracle internally keep this information some where, if yes how to
> access this time information?
>
> Thanks,
> Prem

ora_rowscn in v10 gives the scn which can be mapped relatively closely to a time of day.

hth
connor

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