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Published inMay 2023
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Michal Kvet
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Michal Kvet

Michal Kvet is a researcher, educator, and database expert at the University of Žilina in Slovakia. His primary focus areas are databases, analytics, performance, and cloud computing. He works closely with Oracle and Oracle Academy. He is the co-author of multiple textbooks (a SQL and PL/SQL cookbook, a book on APEX application development, a book on temporal databases, and a MySQL cookbook), coordinates multiple Erasmus+ projects and co-organizes several research conferences and database workshops. Besides this, he supervises engineering projects and bachelor's, master's, and doctoral theses. Over the years, his research has been associated with date and time management and temporal databases. He has Oracle's SQL, PL/SQL, Cloud, Analytics, and Administration certifications. His core knowledge of temporality is provided to you in this book.
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  1. How do we get the client time zone? Which function can be used?
    1. The SESSIONTIMEZONE function of the STANDARD package
    2. The MYTIMEZONE function of the STANDARD package
    3. The UTC_SHIFT function of the STANDARD package
    4. The DBTIMEZONE function of the STANDARD package
  2. Choose the best option specifying the database time zone:
    1. TZH only
    2. TZH:TZM only
    3. Name representation only
    4. TZH:TZM and name representation
  3. What data type is used for the column of the following select statement?
    select FROM_TZ(cast(sysdate as TIMESTAMP), '5:00')
                   AT TIME ZONE 'Europe/Brussels'
      from dual;
    1. DATE
    2. TIMESTAMP
    3. TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
    4. TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE
  4. Which function takes three parameters – input timestamp values and the original and destination time zone to be calculated – applying the time shift for the input value?
    1. FROM_TZ
    2. NEW_TIME
    3. TIMESTAMP
    4. AT TIME ZONE
  5. Which...
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Michal Kvet

Michal Kvet is a researcher, educator, and database expert at the University of Žilina in Slovakia. His primary focus areas are databases, analytics, performance, and cloud computing. He works closely with Oracle and Oracle Academy. He is the co-author of multiple textbooks (a SQL and PL/SQL cookbook, a book on APEX application development, a book on temporal databases, and a MySQL cookbook), coordinates multiple Erasmus+ projects and co-organizes several research conferences and database workshops. Besides this, he supervises engineering projects and bachelor's, master's, and doctoral theses. Over the years, his research has been associated with date and time management and temporal databases. He has Oracle's SQL, PL/SQL, Cloud, Analytics, and Administration certifications. His core knowledge of temporality is provided to you in this book.
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