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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

Summarizing time zone management

Nowadays, data is no longer placed and processed locally. Instead, cloud technologies are used. Oracle provides many cloud locations allowing the provisioning of databases, infrastructure, and many other resources. The number of cloud locations is continuously rising, offering you a wide range of technologies and parameters. But the greatest advantage is, you do not need to hire system administrators. You do not need to manage and optimize the structure. You do not need to maintain hardware. The cloud vendors supervise all the infrastructure, management, patching, and global availability. All data is encrypted, secured, and duplicated, so robustness and reliability can be ensured. Thanks to that, more and more systems are migrated to the cloud to minimize costs and maximize performance. In terms of time management, different temporal aspects must be highlighted. Namely, there is the region where the cloud data center is located. There is also the UTC...