What do you have in mind? Data or structure? If it's a matter of data if you replace
'template' by 'table' and 'table' by 'view' in your question, the answer is yes.
If it's a matter of structure (enlarging a column, for instance), the answer is no.
You have templates of a sort in PL/SQL, when you define a parameter to be of
table.column%type - if the definition change, the procedure will be automatically
invalidated and recompiled. But this is not a syntax supported by 'CREATE TABLE' as
far as I know. Dependencies are tracked by Oracle for stored objects only (procedures,
functions, packages, views) - I mean structural dependencies, not data dependencies
(foreign keys). The best you can do is write some procedure which follows the FK to PK
links and duly alter tables when say a PK column has been altered, and perhaps have it
fired by a DDL trigger on the 'master' or 'template' table.
HTH
SF
Hello
I've a little question about templates.
Is it possible to design a template table and reuse
this table for other =
(new) tables?
If it is, when you change something on the
template, will it also change =
on the other tables?
Regards
Tim
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