2020-06-21

Names Matter

This is one of my favourite quotes: There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.— Phil Karlton IT is my daily life. And this quote is so true. Lately, I’ve been thinking much more than usual about naming, and that names really matter. This led to […]
2016-09-25

Bitemp Remodeler v0.1.0 Released

I’ve been working on a flexible table API generator for Oracle Databases for 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 the TAPI generator and hopefully will like it as much as I do. In this post, I will […]
2014-01-04

Multi-temporal Features in Oracle 12c

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

Loading Historical Data Into Flashback Archive Enabled Tables

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 […]