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Another nice flashback paper



I noticed that Lucas mentioned Jim Czuprynski's paper on flashback in his Amis blog post. I also noticed this paper yesterday and made a note of it. Jim's paper is called "Oracle 10g Availability Enhancements, Part 3: FLASHBACK Enhancements" and is the third part of a three paper series. This is a great paper as usual from Jim that starts with a review of flashback queries with examples and then goes on to talk about flashback version query with an illustration, then the new pseudo column ORA_ROWSCN is then discussed. Flashback transaction queries are discussed again with examples before Jim finishes with a short discussion of using SCN's vs timestamps and finally a discussion of the effects of the UNDO_RETENTION settings. This is a good paper.