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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

Exploring constructor functions

How do you construct a DATE value? There are always two streams that can be used. The first type relates to the already described ANSI standard being adopted. The second stream uses explicit field mapping forming constructor functions. To ensure the processing is correct irrespective of the system and session format configuration, it is strongly recommended to always cover the mapping, that is, ensuring there is an unambiguous expression of the meaning of individual elements during the value construction. The DATE value cannot be treated as a string and individual values must be assigned to the elements, ensuring the correct meaning, representation, and management (mapping to the individual elements). For example, the value 12 can express the day, the month, or any time element (hour, minute, or second). Thus, without knowing the meaning of the values, two issues can be present. The first is that an exception will be raised if it is improperly specified...