RE: Without using sysdate

A good guess would be one of the date columns in one of the v$<tables> that keep changing with time.
e.g. checkpoint or SCN

-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_bcbso.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 12:27 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Without using sysdate

Write an external C procedure to use localtime and return the current month.

Not sure what the value is in this though. Using SYSDATE would be faster.

Jared

On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Veera Prasad wrote:

> Can anybody teach me how to findout current month
> without using sysdate.
>
> Regards
> Veera
>
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