Subject:            Date and Time of Instance Startup
Author:            RBEARD
Modified:           11 Sep 94 10:22:16           



If you need to find out the time and date the instance was started from within
SQL (of some sort) you can use the V$INSTANCE view which contains the time as
either number of seconds since instance startup or the actual time (julian
format) the instance was started.

This is only available in Oracle 7 and was required by the customer in order to
use the instance start time as the base time for a set of performance
statistics.