Re: SCN and User Sessions...

Wouldn't point in time recovery be a little more appropriate to your example?

Graham Thornton wrote:

> I think this must be an "elementary DBA" type question, but I cannot seem
> to find the answer anywhere....
>
> Is there a method to find out the last few system change numbers (SCNs) for
> a given user.
>
> For example, let's say user FRED decideds to update the SALARY table and
> give all 10,000 employees a 30% raise (yipee!), then commits without
> thinking. Is not the best method to fix this problem to restore the
> database from an earlier backup, and then roll-forward to the SCN right
> before the one that mucked things up? - and if so, how the heck do I find
> out what SCN was responsible for the change?
>
> I was expecting there to be a V$ view that included user-id or session-id
> and the last SCN for that user/session.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Graham.
>
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Received on Tue Aug 18 1998 - 21:23:50 CDT