Hi ALL, In a test server play what ever u want. Nothing wrong in this.
With out testing any thing , we should not give solns. I've tested this in my test server. But have a naming convention to avoid such probs. thanx Senthil -----Original Message----- Naveen Nahata Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 8:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L If it was a joke, its not nice to mislead someone who is new into the world of Oracle. It might lead to a lot of problems for him. If it wasn't a joke, please read the DOCs. Regards Naveen > -----Original Message----- > From: Senthil Kumar D [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 5:05 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: db file sequential read [WAS:wait event puzzler] > > > Dear Bhaskar, > > You can modify col$.NAME to varchar2(60) and try. > > If this fails, I'll give a procedure you can use that to change it to > whatever size you want. > > Senthil Kumar > Sr Oracle DBA > Summitworks Technologies Pvt Ltd > > -----Original Message----- > Bhaskar Viswanathan > Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2003 4:00 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > > hi, > > We use Oracle 8 DB. > > I am not a Oracle technical guy. So lemme try explaining the problem. > > We need to create tables with columns, whose names(column-names) are > more than 30 characters long. > This is being restricted because, all columns of all tables > have entries > in a table called 'col'. > Thit table is defined as: > > SQL> desc col > Name Null? Type > ----------------------------------------- -------- > ---------------------------- > TNAME NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30) > COLNO NOT NULL NUMBER > CNAME NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30) > COLTYPE VARCHAR2(106) > WIDTH NOT NULL NUMBER > SCALE NUMBER > PRECISION NUMBER > NULLS VARCHAR2(19) > DEFAULTVAL LONG > CHARACTER_SET_NAME VARCHAR2(44) > SQL> > > since CNAME is defined as VARCHAR2(30), we are forced to > retrict column > names to a max of 30 characters long. > > For eg. create table T1(xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx31 varchar2(50)); > The above statement will be rejected with the error: > * > ERROR at line 1: > ORA-00972: identifier is too long > > However, the statement "create table T1(xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx30 > varchar2(50))" > Succeeds in creating the table; > > I guess this table col is created by the system itself. how can we > change this size > So that the 30 character restriction in column names can be avoided??? > > baski > > **************************Disclaimer************************** > ********** > > Information contained in this E-MAIL being proprietary to > Wipro Limited is > 'privileged' and 'confidential' and intended for use only by > the individual > or entity to which it is addressed. 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