Re: Issues with building a view over a DB Link

2008-04-11 Thread Gary Dries
Patrick, I did what you suggested and I was am able to run any select statement from the link and get valid returns. But, when I try to create the View form in ARS I am getting the ORA-00904 Invalid Identifier on the key field. I have verified that the Key field on the SQL table is set up

Re: Issues with building a view over a DB Link

2008-04-02 Thread Gidd
Gary, Croom Consulting's Link to External Databases can do what you are looking at and with significant less headache. Contact me off list if you would like to arrange an evaluation. Regards...Gidd _ From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Issues with building a view over a DB Link

2008-04-02 Thread Brian Goralczyk
Gary, The short answer is yes a view of a view can be modified. There are a couple caviates here. One. The request ID field in remedy. I suspect from your error message that you have the address1 column matched to column 1 on the view form. even with view forms, Remedy needs a unique

Re: Issues with building a view over a DB Link

2008-04-02 Thread Gidd
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Re: Issues with building a view over a DB Link

2008-04-02 Thread Pierson, Shawn
What I've had to do in the past in a similar situation is to have the view form referencing a view on my DB that was using a linked server. If you get that part, you can at least see the data. However, if you have issues modifying or submitting the data, unfortunately the next best solution is

Re: Issues with building a view over a DB Link

2008-04-02 Thread Gary Dries
Brian, I saw this also and sent it to my DBA, he found it interesting also. The only quick explanation we could come up with is that something is happening to the Column Name in translation via the DBLink. Now this has one flaw, and that is the fact that the field that do not error have very

Re: Issues with building a view over a DB Link

2008-04-02 Thread Brian Goralczyk
You know, I am wonderingSometimes I have seen Oracle return the wrong piece of code for the error. Is there any field on the list that might be a reserved word for Oracle? Were you going with just the error, or did you turn on server sql logging and capture the sql code that Remedy was

Re: Issues with building a view over a DB Link

2008-04-02 Thread patrick zandi
Just create a view on the db side, create a dblink, then create a synomn on the ars side. Test link.. select * from synonm... ( I know I cannot spell .. ;-) then create a view form.. watch out of Date fields.. and use an escalation or a filter to write back.. voila .. works great.. been doing

Re: Issues with building a view over a DB Link

2008-04-02 Thread patrick zandi
do you have encryption turned on between the links ? this could be your issue as well. I have seen a required on one side and a requested on the other.. cause issues.. On 4/2/08, patrick zandi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just create a view on the db side, create a dblink, then create a synomn