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Re: Wow, Man, Flashbacks!

From: Melanie Caffrey <melanie_caffrey_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 09:44:32 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D5D8F.20031106094432@fatcity.com>


Hi Bambi,

I hate to sound repetitive, but, it depends. :-)

It depends on how far you want to flash back to.

One of my clients was being audited last year by their parent company.

I put in a retention period of about a week at a time.

Without divulging much from my confidentiality agreement with them, we were really trying to figure out what certain users were doing within the company, and we provided proof of such. Using the flashback query feature made this incredibly easy to do!

Of course, you have to be careful with your UNDO segments, as you know.

I didn't try going backwards for more than a week. That was all we needed at the time.

I also turned this feature off once we were done.

Other than UNDO segment growth, which I planned for in advance, I didn't have any problems with it. And it made the task at hand incredibly easy.

But, I wouldn't recommend putting it in place unless you really need it.

My $0.02,
Melanie


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