On 9/17/07, Laurent ROCHE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > in the Ant tasks documentation about the schemapattern and catalogpattern > parameters, on can read: > For some more info on xxx patterns and JDBC, see java.sql.DatabaseMetaData. > > However looking up the java.sql.DatabaseMetaData documentation, I could > hardly found any additional information ! ! > I am not sure this link is very relevant ... or may be more something like: > For general info on xxx patterns and JDBC, see java.sql.DatabaseMetaData. > > Then again, it might be ME not being able to find the information: I find it > hard to beleive that on this page (java.sql.DatabaseMetaData) they don't even > have something like > A schema is a notion defined (most of the time in a different way) for each > RDMS that allows to group a set of tables together. > (I believe the same phrase could be used for catalog) > > May be this phrase could be added in the Ant tasks documentation ?
Well, JDBC and also DdlUtils assume a certain familiarity with (relational) database concepts and terms. For some basic info about schemas in the world of databases see e.g. the documentation for the particular database that you're using or Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_modeling). Tom
