How about this method?? Real ugly
SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Jan 30 12:25:17 2003
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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 ...
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>From: "Daiminger, Helmut"
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>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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