Re: how to find current scn number?

You could try:

select

    max(ktuxescnw * power(2,32) + ktuxescnb) from

    x$ktuxe;

This gives you the highest SCN recorded in any of the undo segment headers. This would only be an approximation for Oracle 9, as the SCN seems to increment every 3 seconds in the complete absence of any active transactions - but in Oracle 8 I THINK it will give you the current SCN.

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-----Original Message-----
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Date: 30 January 2003 15:38

>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
>
>

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