2020-06-21
This is one of my favorite quotes: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things. — Phil Karlton IT is my daily live. And this quote is so true. Lately I’ve been thinking much more than usual about naming, and that names really matter. This led […]
2016-09-25
I’ve been working on a flexible table API generator for Oracle Databases since several months. A TAPI generator doesn’t sound like a real innovation. But this one contains some features you probably have not seen before in TAPI generator and hopefully will like it as much as I do. In this post I will not […]
2014-01-04
Oracle 12c has a feature called Temporal Validity. With Temporal Validity you can add one or more valid time dimensions to a table using existing columns, or using columns automatically created by the database. This means that Oracle offers combined with Flashback Data Archive native bi-temporal and even multi-temporal historization features. This […]
2013-01-03
Oracle provides via OTN an import solution for FBA (Flashback Data Archive also known as Total Recall). The solution extends the SCN to TIMESTAMP mapping plus provides a wrapper to existing APIs to populate the history. However, issues like using a customized mapping period/precision or ORA-1466 when using the AS OF TIMESTAMP […]