Just curious, has there been any discussion about expanding aliases to allow
defining just a path to a directory where multiple database reside?
The reason I'm asking is that in some situations, my apps are designed to allow
the users to archive fiscal data. In general, they have a main database for
active information and an archive database for current archive data. Each
fiscal year, the information in the current archive database is copied to a new
fiscal archive database and then cleared for the new fiscal year. That means
that there could be years of data in individual databases but they all reside
in the same directory.
Currently, to use aliases, I would have to add an alias each time a new DB is
created. If there were a way to specify an alias for a particular directory, I
could use that to build a complete database name something like:
servername:aliasname:databasename
That would allow more dynamic building of connection strings. At the moment, I
usually store the database path in each users settings file and just tack on
the database name as I need it. However, if the location changes, each users
settings would have to be changed. It would be nice if I could declare an alias
in the alias.conf file to use as a base directory.
Any thoughts?
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