Stephane, you are right, after I talked to the developer. She is totally confused by alias name, dbname, schema name. She is referring database name.
joan Joan Hsieh wrote: > > Stephane, > > Well spoken- my bad. Our developer threw me this question when I was > just leaving from work. (I copied her email to the list) Now I am at > home and taking a chance to look it over again. I am not sure what she > asked for. My guess is she wants to pass a variable based on @xxx to > access the schema. I will make it clear tomorrow. I have been very busy > lately and we have too many projects going on at once. Please bear with > me if I didn't put my effort into it. > > Many thanks, > Joan > > Stephane Faroult wrote: > > > > Joan Hsieh wrote: > > > > > > Hi Listers, > > > > > > I am trying to find a way to know the schema name. Say, if I logged in > > > as jjin01@ngd. When I run a program, how can I get the schema name > > > which should be "ngd"? If I logged in as bkrasnof@pr, in this case, the > > > schema name will be "pr". > > > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > > > Joan > > > > Joan, > > > > Beware of vocabulary: what is usually called the 'schema name' is the > > name of the Oracle account which owns the tables. > > > > select global_name from global_name; > > > > will return the name of the database. But beware that the name of the > > database has no link to your @ngd which is just your tns alias (locally > > defined very often). Most people give as tns alias the name of the SID > > which is in turn the name of the database, but this is just a common > > sense rule - nothing mandatory here. It's usually pretty clean on Unix, > > but under NT a lot of databases have 'ORCL' has their SID, are of course > > referred to under different names in TNSNAMES.ora and _may_ not have a > > significant global name (can be changed with 'alter database'). > > > > Great opportunity to set up company standards. > > > > -- > > Regards, > > > > Stephane Faroult > > Oriole Software > > -- > > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > > -- > > Author: Stephane Faroult > > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: Joan Hsieh > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Joan Hsieh INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
