Oracle Cloud Time Zone Reflection

In the past, overall system complexity and performance were handled by the administrator. Date and time reflection was covered by the server, which ensured it was properly managed irrespective of the session definitions. As a result, DATE and TIMESTAMP values were obtained by the sysdate and systimestamp functions, respectively. With globalization, this is no longer the case. The server time zones cannot manage data because different regions and associated time zones must be taken into consideration. Therefore, session perspective reflection should be used.

Moreover, another problem can be if customers want to move their databases to a cloud environment. We often get questions related to the process of moving databases to the cloud. Time management suddenly becomes difficult because there is no proper reference to the time points. It is not enough for the server to use UTC as its reference; time zones must be properly set and evaluated. Dedicated...