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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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Reliability and integrity issues

It is important to comply with this rule: never rely on implicit conversions, and never treat Date and Time values as character strings by applying the SUBSTR function. By changing the session format, the provided input value does not need to fit the mapping. Imagine a system migration to another server or the cloud. The original formats and assumed parameter values would not be retained. It can result in obtaining an improper value (such as changing the value of month and day, if applicable) or even raising an exception. Thus, it would be necessary to revise and rebuild the whole application! Avoid this situation before it occurs! It is enormously time- and money-consuming and requires the involvement of many developers. In addition, after the process, the whole system must be retested.

Thus, extraction using a substring is insufficient. If the session date format is changed, the extracted value does not need to be relevant. The developer cannot...

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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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