Oracle-L: RE: 8i: how to find current scn number?

From: Weiss, Rick <rweiss_at_state.mt.us>
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 11:34:09 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0053F661.20030130113409@fatcity.com>

How about this method?? Real ugly

SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Jan 30 12:25:17 2003

Connected to:
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options JServer Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production

12:25:19 SQL> CREATE TABLE scn ( scn varchar2(25));

Table created.

12:25:40 SQL> INSERT INTO scn VALUES(
TO_CHAR(userenv('commitscn'),999999999999999));

1 row created.

12:26:41 SQL> select * from scn;

SCN

98038268

1 row selected.

12:26:48 SQL> I hope that I haven't totally missed the question

There's always more than one way to do the Oracle thing

Rick Weiss

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Connected to:
Oracle8i Enterprise Edition Release 8.1.7.3.0 - Production With the Partitioning option
JServer Release 8.1.7.3.0 - Production

SQL> create table scn(scn number);

Table created.

SQL> insert into scn values(userenv('COMMITSCN'));

1 row created.

SQL> select * from SCN;

SCN

4.3002E+12

SQL> Unfortunately, you cannot directly 'SELECT' the function ...

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Daiminger, Helmut"
><Helmut.Daiminger_at_KirchGruppe.de>
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Sent: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 05:25:14
>
>Hi!
>
>How do I find out the current scn number that the
>database is at?
>
>In 9i I could use dbms_flashback package...
>
>This is 8.1.7 on Solaris 8.
>
>Thanks,
>Helmut
>

Regards,

Stephane Faroult
Oriole

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