Dan McGhan on Dates, Timestamps and Timezones

Published: 16 January 2019
on channel: Practically Perfect PL/SQL with Steven Feuerstein
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It can be tricky sorting out which datatype to use:

DATE?
TIMESTAMP?
TIMESTAMP WITH TIMEZONE?
TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIMEZONE?

Dan McGhan, Developer Advocate at Oracle, offers this quick review and recommendation (hint: local timezone). For lots more information about working with dates in Oracle Database, and doing so from multiple languages: https://jsao.io/2016/08/working-with-...