... 102 Chapter 2 N Using Single-Row Functions 11g are NUMBER, BINARY_DOUBLE, and BINARY_FLOAT. Datetime datatypes in Oracle 11g are DATE, TIMESTAMP, and INTERVAL. Datatype conversion ... instance recovery is needed. Please see Chapter 8, “Introducing Oracle 11g Components and Architecture,” for more information. Oracle provides the ORA_ROWSCN pseudocolumn to identify the SCN ... argument will tell Oracle what format the input given in the first argument should be. The third argument may be to specify an NLS string. You can use NLS parameters to tell Oracle what character...