Thanks for the question, H.E..
Asked: October 19, 2020 - 12:01 pm UTC
Last updated: October 21, 2020 - 3:40 am UTC
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We have looked at dbms_flashback and dbms_wm but both don't deliver what we actually want:
Is there a possibility to make an entire session transient?
We would like to use this for our testing scenario's:
1. Start the session in "transient mode"
2. execute a lot of pl/sql with commits, rollbacks and savepoints
3. drop/stop the session
....and everything is magically back to before point 1.
dbms_flashback.ENABLE_AT_SYSTEM_CHANGE_NUMBER is almost there by showing the data at a specified scn,
but then you have to reverse every table that is hit by the -third party- code by hand. Not feasible in our environment
I'm not very optimistic, but perhaps I missed a new capability of the DB.
Is there a way?
and Connor said...
Not really...
There is "flashback pluggable database" so if you can run a test in its own pluggable database could take advantage of that.
Similarly you could create a thin snapshot clone of a pluggable, do your test and just throw the clone away.
If you can get to 19c, you can have 3 pluggables per database without any license implications
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