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Developing Robust Date and Time Oriented Applications in Oracle Cloud

By : Michal Kvet
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Developing Robust Date and Time Oriented Applications in Oracle Cloud

By: Michal Kvet

Overview of this book

Proper date and time management is critical for the development and reliability of Oracle Databases and cloud environments, which are among the most rapidly expanding technologies today. This knowledge can be applied to cloud technology, on premises, application development, and integration to emphasize regional settings, UTC coordination, or different time zones. This practical book focuses on code snippets and discusses the existing functionalities and limitations, along with covering data migration to the cloud by emphasizing the importance of proper date and time management. This book helps you understand the historical background and evolution of ANSI standards. You’ll get to grips with data types, constructor principles, and existing functionalities, and focus on the limitations of regional parameters and time zones, which help in expanding business to other parts of the world. You’ll also explore SQL injection threats, temporal database architecture, using Flashback Technology to reconstruct valid database images from the past, time zone management, and UTC synchronization across regions. By the end of this book, you’ll be able to create and manage temporal systems, prevent SQL injection attacks, use existing functionalities and define your own robust solutions for date management, and apply time zone and region rules.
Table of Contents (26 chapters)
1
Part 1: Discovering Oracle Cloud
4
Part 2: Understanding the Roots of Date and Time
7
Part 3: Modeling, Storing, and Managing Date and Time
12
Part 4: Modeling Validity Intervals
17
Part 5: Building Robust and Secure Temporal Solutions
20
Part 6: Expanding a Business Worldwide Using Oracle Cloud

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the core concepts of the Oracle Cloud technology based on self-driving, self-securing, and self-repairing properties, followed by an examination of the types of ADBs that can be provisioned in any deployment model. Besides this, you were also introduced to a selection of important terms related to the Oracle Cloud environment.

As databases and applications are continuously being migrated from the on-premises world to the cloud, we summarized the various database architectures in use. It is important to know and understand the individual existing architectures and be able to adapt the existing on-premises solutions to the architecture used in the cloud environment.

At this point, you know how to create cloud databases, what the individual types are, and how to connect to them using Oracle Wallet. The next chapter deals with data management, focusing on data loading, import, and export techniques.