Re: Oracle as a "time machine"

Joop

There is indeed a command

|ALTER SYSTEM SET FIXED_DATE = YYYY-MM-DD-HH24:MI:SS |See
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96536/ch168.htm#1017295

That's the docs for 9i

Cheers
Luke

Joop Gijsbers wrote:
> Today i got a (strange ?) question from some developers ,that they
> want in their developer database like to use Oracle " as a time
> machine": changing the current time of the database to some time in
> the future and then see houw some application parts react.
>
> One was telling me thet there was a possibility with an " alter system
> set.." command, something like " alter system set fixed_date ...." ,
> but i had a quick look at Metalink and in the Oracle documentation and
> i can't find anything about that.
>
> I know there is some possiblity with manuplation with the system time
> (to the future, not to the past), but that is not the scenatio i like
> in this case (there are more instances/databases on that particular
> node).
>
> I appreciate some advice.
>
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