Table where savepoints are saved

Question

Could anyone tell please tell me in which table of the database are all the savepoints saved?
Can I also see the date when the savepoint was created?
Thank you.

Answer 1

Girish Sharma wrote:
Sir,
Basically I am confused, because you are saying "savepoints are available only in the session memory" while docs are saying that "Oracle stores savepoint names in ALL_WM_MODIFIED_TABLES view for version-enabled tables." My point was that in the concepts guide we can learn about a basic concept named the savepoint. This is a transient thing that exists only within the lifetime of a single transaction.
You are looking at workspace management, which is an option for which there is an entire development manual: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e11826/toc.htm
When you say "the docs say ..." what you really mean (presumably) is that the "Workspace Manager Developers' Guide says ...".
It is unfortunate that Oracle often uses the same word in different contexts to mean different things - but when you have a description in the concepts manual, and a description in the development guide for an option that very few people are likely to be using, you should allow for the possibility that the two documents are talking about two different things.
I haven't read the Workspace manuals for at least 5 years - but given your confusion I'd check whether Oracle meant the same thing by the word savepoint in this case: for example:
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how do you declare a savepoint in WM anyway - is it simply the syntax that I used above - if so then perhaps WM is a special case where you can find "ordinary" savepoints sometimes.
if I create a version-enabled table, enable SQL_trace, and then issue: savepointXXX, can I see an insert into a WM table in the trace file ?
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I intended no reprimand by my earlier comment - I was merely highlighting a strategy for addressing your own problem.
Regards
Jonathan Lewis