> 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.
You can create aliases for the next 100 years
> 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.
What are you going to do, when databases will overflow this single
directory ? Buy new HDD ? Create new
directory and teach application to look for databases at two "superaliases" ?
Regards,
Vlad
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