simple question

2004-01-08 Thread Greg Sorrel
Hi! I need to wrap this SQL into SP where I can pass new owner name. I'm planning create db table with all owners I need to pass. BEGIN FOR r IN (SELECT table_name FROM dba_tables WHERE owner='TRAIN1') LOOP EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'truncate table TRAIN1.'||r.table_name; END LOOP;END;/ Thanks. Greg

Re: simple question

2004-01-08 Thread oranew2004
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE labware_admin.truncate_tables( schema_owner IN VARCHAR2) AS r number(10); BEGIN FOR r IN (SELECT table_name FROM dba_tables WHERE owner=schema_owner) LOOP EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'truncate table schema_owner.'||r.table_name; END LOOP; END; ERROR: Line 14 Column 55

RE: simple question

2004-01-08 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
function. Good Luck Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message-From: Greg Sorrel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 2:55 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: simple question Hi! I need to wrap this SQL into SP where

RE: simple question

2004-01-08 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Remove the r number(10); and it should be fine. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -Original Message-From: oranew2004 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 3:24 PMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: Re: simple question

RE: simple question

2004-01-08 Thread Stephen.Lee
I'll add that if you have foreign keys, they will mess you up. Here is an old script I have in my stash that you can modify with info already provided by others. procedure truncate_all(code_word in varchar2 default 'XXX') is cursor c1 is select table_name,constraint_name from user_constraints

Re: simple question

2004-01-08 Thread Mladen Gogala
Why do you have r declared as number(10)? On 01/08/2004 03:24:25 PM, oranew2004 wrote: CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE labware_admin.truncate_tables ( schema_ownerIN VARCHAR2 ) AS r number(10); BEGIN FOR r IN (SELECT table_name FROM dba_tables WHERE owner=schema_owner) LOOP

Outer join in SQL server - A very simple question

2003-06-25 Thread Naveen Nahata
Sorry for the SQL Server post, working on SQL Server for the first time, and this list is my only resource as of now. I'm reading the SQL Server join syntax and trying it myself. Meanwhile, If i can get some expert help, it will be more than useful I'm simplifying the problem with the help of

RE: Outer join in SQL server - A very simple question

2003-06-25 Thread Naveen Nahata
- A very simple question Sorry for the SQL Server post, working on SQL Server for the first time, and this list is my only resource as of now. I'm reading the SQL Server join syntax and trying it myself. Meanwhile, If i can get some expert help, it will be more than useful I'm

RE: Outer join in SQL server - A very simple question

2003-06-25 Thread Adrian Roe
INTO t4 VALUES ('A', 'DD'); as INSERT INTO t4 VALUES ('', 'DD'); in my previous mail. Regards Naveen -Original Message- From: Naveen Nahata Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Outer join in SQL server - A very simple question

Re: Outer join in SQL server - A very simple question

2003-06-25 Thread Darrell Landrum
I don't know the answer but can suggest some resources: www.sqlmag.com www.sqlpass.org/forums www.sqlservercentral.com/forum Just to be sure, I went to each of these this morning to make sure they are still live. [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/25/03 02:49AM Sorry for the SQL Server post, working on

RE: Outer join in SQL server - A very simple question

2003-06-25 Thread Pardee, Roy E
-Original Message- From: Naveen Nahata Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Outer join in SQL server - A very simple question Sorry for the SQL Server post, working on SQL Server for the first time, and this list is my only

RE: Outer join in SQL server - A very simple question

2003-06-25 Thread Rudy Zung
('', 'DD'); in my previous mail. Regards Naveen -Original Message- From: Naveen Nahata Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2003 1:20 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Outer join in SQL server - A very simple question Sorry for the SQL Server post, working on SQL

RE: Outer join in SQL server - A very simple question

2003-06-25 Thread Naveen Nahata
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Outer join in SQL server - A very simple question I don't know the answer but can suggest some resources: www.sqlmag.com www.sqlpass.org/forums www.sqlservercentral.com/forum Just to be sure, I went to each of these this morning to make

RE: RE: Another simple question

2003-01-26 Thread BanarasiBabu Tippa
Thank you very much Dennis and Dick for your info. wow!! These days I am learning lot. Thanks for my friend Ravi Kiran who suggested me to join this group.. -Original Message- Sent: Friday, January 24, 2003 10:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dennis, Allow me to add

Re: DDLs -- was Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-25 Thread Jonathan Lewis
My point wasn't to pick any particular detail of any particular example . I was merely making the point that whilst the concept of DDL without commits seems to be straightforward, the requirement for designing something that could analyse and handle all the consequent errors that might be a

DDLs -- was Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-24 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Take your first example : insert into t1 values (1); drop table t1; -- how to deal with self-deadlock ? insert into t1 values (2); commit; Why does Oracle HAVE to commit when the DROP TABLE is issued ? What if the INSERT had been issued by another session ? Would the DROP TABLE go through

RE: Another simple question

2003-01-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Banarasi - Worse than that, Oracle used to recommend that you use no more than 4 characters (look at your process names, and imagine if your O.S. only allowed 8 characters for the name). The problem is that some, mostly older, computer systems have severe filesystem and process name limitations. I

Re:RE: Another simple question

2003-01-24 Thread dgoulet
Dennis, Allow me to add another item to the pile from the OLD days. Back in SQL*Net V1 it was recommended to select a database name/SID that was case insensitive. That restriction/recommendation was due to older DOS based clients that handled all of that sort of data as upper case.

RE: DDLs -- was Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-24 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
Hemant, My guess is that Oracle, at some point in time long ago, decided that DDL's and DML's should not be mixed together. Because they could not (or did not want to) deal with the issue, they decided to perform an implicit commit before any DDL statement was issued. Case closed. This is the

RE: DDLs -- was Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-24 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Tom - I think you've nailed it. Think of the design decisions that some of Oracle's competitors made in the early days and how silly they seem in retrospect. Anyone remember the row-locking vs. block-locking wars? The other aspect that many people don't think of if they have never worked in

RE: DDLs -- was Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-24 Thread Jared . Still
are at a safe commit point. jared Mercadante, Thomas F [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/24/2003 09:34 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: DDLs -- was Re: simple question

RE: DDLs -- was Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-24 Thread Hemant K Chitale
Agreed. There's a lot of code out there that was developed considering the way Oracle handled DDL and DML specifically. Although I would have liked Oracle to handle DDL as an Autonomous Transaction and provide an error message for the scenario in the first example, I guess it might be too late

Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Markus Reger
SORRY - this was the wrong list. the other pertinent list is one about controlling machines via a DDL protocol and a demon called the alike. kr mr [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/22/03 16:49 PM hi what's your exact question? you mean autocommit like in database applications? what tool are you using to

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
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Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Ora NT DBA
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Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Jared Still
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RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Fink, Dan
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RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Rajesh . Rao
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RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Hemant K Chitale
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RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Jeremy Pulcifer
Title: RE: simple question on DDL From: Gogala, Mladen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 8:45 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: simple question on DDL Actually, DB2 (pardon my French) doesn't issue a commit after a DDL. I'm

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Gogala, Mladen
]] Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 10:05 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: simple question on DDL Arup, I see your point and agree that the DDL should be an autonomous tx. Perhaps an enhancement request is in order? Since Oracle has the autonomous tx code

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: simple question on DDL Set autotrace on ... and then do explain plan for You'll see. Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't

Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-23 Thread Jonathan Lewis
One question to ask is whether whether all DDL use the same strategy. Similarly, if you have multiple code paths for do a ddl call how much more risk of error do you introduce to the kernel. Finally how do you get a consistent error response to the end user if the error condition of apparently

Another simple question

2003-01-23 Thread BanarasiBabu Tippa
Hi All Why name of the Database is restricted to 8 bytes. where as we can have long names for tablespaces, tables, views, etc ? thanks Banarasi Babu -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: BanarasiBabu Tippa INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network

simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread BanarasiBabu Tippa
Hi friends Why DDL statements performs auto commit ? What is the exact reason behind that one? Anyone can share his/her opinions!! Thanks regards BanarasiBabu -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: BanarasiBabu Tippa INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City

Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Markus Reger
hi what's your exact question? you mean autocommit like in database applications? what tool are you using to observe or redard to this phenomenon? the erd-demon has to send some info via rs232 to make the amplifier -called booster - work. no info implies no current on the tracks. kind of answwer

Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Arup Nanda
My guess will be to preserve the changes to the data dictionary, which are just Oracle tables anyway. When you create a table, a record goes to TAB$, SEG$ and so on and so forth. Unless there is a commit these information is not visible. But now that you asked, I wnder why the same objective

Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Rajesh . Rao
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RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Consistency is the key too imagine what would happen if I dropped a column or changed it's definition, while a SQL statement or PL/SQL package was executing. The data that was updated before the change may well be very different in nature than the data after the change Borrowing from

Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Arup Nanda
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RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Fink, Dan
Take the case of an insert (we'll call tx1), where space allocation is required. As you insert records, the table allocated additional extents (updating fet$ (free extent table) and uet$ (used extent table) in the data dictionary). These updates to the data dictionary are implicitly committed,

Re: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Igor Neyman
Very good case described. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:16 PM Take the case of an insert (we'll call tx1), where space allocation is required. As you insert

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Rajesh . Rao
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RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Fink, Dan
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RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Arup Nanda
: simple question on DDL Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2003 14:18:57 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: from newsfeed.cts.com ([209.68.248.164]) by mc1-f3.law16.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5600); Wed, 22 Jan 2003 15:13:04 -0800 Received: from fatcity.UUCP (uucp@localhost)by newsfeed.cts.com (8.9.3

RE: simple question on DDL

2003-01-22 Thread Deshpande, Kirti
Dan addressed this very well in his earlier post... Here is what Tom Kyte says in his book (Expert one-on-one Oracle): DDL locks are automatically placed against objects during a DDL operation to protect them from changes by other sessions. DDL locks are held for the duration of the DDL

Re: simple ? question

2002-10-25 Thread Joan Hsieh
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

simple ? question

2002-10-24 Thread Joan Hsieh
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 -- Please see the

Re: simple ? question

2002-10-24 Thread Stephane Faroult
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,

Re: simple ? question

2002-10-24 Thread Joan Hsieh
Stephane, Well spoken- my bad. Our developer threw me this question when I was just leaving from work. ( I copied from her email) Now I am at home to look it over. I am not clear what she asked for. I think she wants to pass a variable based on the @xxx to access this schema. I will make it

Re: simple ? question

2002-10-24 Thread Joan Hsieh
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

Simple question on logging..

2002-08-14 Thread Peter R
Hi Gurus, How can I turn off logging for a table in Oracle7.3 database. Iam planning to reorg thru ctas and want to use append hint for loading data. SQL alter table tt unrecoverable; alter table tt unrecoverable * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01735: invalid ALTER TABLE option SQL

Re: Simple question on logging..

2002-08-14 Thread Ramon E. Estevez
ALTER TABLE yourtable NOLOGGING - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 14, 2002 4:33 PM Hi Gurus, How can I turn off logging for a table in Oracle7.3 database. Iam planning to reorg thru ctas and want to use

RE: Simple question on logging..

2002-08-14 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: Simple question on logging.. -Original Message- From: Peter R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] How can I turn off logging for a table in Oracle7.3 database. Recoverable/unrecoverable is not a persistent attribute in 7.3.4 The unrecoverable option only applies

a simple question about FKs

2002-06-18 Thread Gurelei
Hi. I was trying to truncate a table, which is a parent to two other tables (its PK is referred to by two FKs from two other tables). These other tables are empty. When I tried to truncate the parent table, however, I got an error message ORA-02266: unique/primary keys in table referenced by

RE: a simple question about FKs

2002-06-18 Thread Stephane Faroult
Hi. I was trying to truncate a table, which is a parent to two other tables (its PK is referred to by two FKs from two other tables). These other tables are empty. When I tried to truncate the parent table, however, I got an error message ORA-02266: unique/primary keys in table referenced by

Re: a simple question about FKs

2002-06-18 Thread Alexandre Gorbatchev
Hi Gene, You cannot truncate a table that is a parent in enabled FK constraints. You did the right thing. or you can simply delete (of course longer) with enabled constraints. -- Alexandre Hi. I was trying to truncate a table, which is a parent to two other tables (its PK is referred to by

Re: a simple question about FKs

2002-06-18 Thread Igor Neyman
You did it right. It's just the way oracle works. Igor Neyman, OCP DBA [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 9:43 AM Hi. I was trying to truncate a table, which is a parent to two other

Re:a simple question about FKs

2002-06-18 Thread dgoulet
Gene, In the event of a delete from the parent Oracle has a chance to check the child table(s) to see if the parent is still valid. But since a truncate is really a DDL, not DML, command there is no such chance. Therefore if you want to truncate a table you have to disable the foreign

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2002-05-24 Thread Rachel Carmichael
: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated? Dennis, I have on my desk, all in varying stages of being read: Inmon's book Building the Data Warehouse (very understandable) Kimball's articles from his site and from

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2002-05-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
, Ian A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/21/2002 05:48 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated? I am

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2002-05-23 Thread Jack Silvey
by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/21/2002 05:48 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated? I am new to his books, three

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2002-05-23 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated? I am new to his books, three chapters in. The first release of the Data Warehouse Toolkit defines a data warehouse much as a data mart

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2002-05-23 Thread Grabowy, Chris
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated? I am new to his books, three chapters in. The first release of the Data Warehouse Toolkit defines a data warehouse much

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2002-05-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated? I am new to his books, three chapters in. The first release of the Data Warehouse Toolkit defines a data warehouse much as a data mart is today

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2002-05-23 Thread Yechiel Adar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated? I am new to his books, three chapters in. The first release of the Data Warehouse Toolkit defines a data warehouse much as a data mart is today

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2002-05-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Dennis, We are active participants in the process. We are also making an offer to someone with an extensive background in developing data warehouses, which will help me to sleep much more comfortably at night :) Rachel --- DENNIS WILLIAMS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rachel - Glad Inmon's book

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2002-05-23 Thread Ron Rogers
Rachel, This was just received from the SearchDatabase email and I thought it might be of interest to you. . TODAY'S BI STRATEGY: Placement of the data warehouse (Part 2) By William McKnight, SearchCRM Expert Another question I received [last week at the Data Warehousing

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2002-05-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
ron, Even without reading the rest of the article, my first instinct is to scream NOO and, after reading the article, it appears the author agrees with me. I have a sane boss. an intelligent boss. He is management, not damagement he has the same concerns about what the

RE: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated?

2002-05-23 Thread Jared . Still
Dennis Williams wrote: Personally, I have understood everything that Kimball has written and have never been able to read one of Inmon's articles to the end. But maybe that is just me. No, it's not just you. I can't read him either. It's like taking a walk through a briar patch without a

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2002-05-23 Thread Ron Rogers
Rachel, Having the same backup problems as talked about in the article, I can agree with the views and opinions of the author. The second part of the article dealt with the placement of the data and type of operation on the data in the same instance. I have mixed emotions about that idea.

RE: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated?

2002-05-23 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Jared - Hmmm. . . if Rachel finds him very readable, does that mean: a) she will shortly explain Inmon to the rest of us dumb DBAs. b) she will become incomprehensible to the rest of us. Sorry Rachel, couldn't resist. Actually, I am hoping for option A. Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc.

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2002-05-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
I have NOT read his articles. Nor have I gotten all THAT far into the book however, the prep work I did before starting his book (reading the Oracle docs, reading some Kimball articles, searching the web) may be the reason I find him readable. Of course, it could just be that I am smarter than

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2002-05-23 Thread Peter . McLarty
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject:RE: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated? Dennis, I have on my desk, all in varying stages of being read: Inmon's book Building the Data Warehouse

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2002-05-23 Thread Rachel Carmichael
Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated? Dennis, I have on my desk, all in varying stages of being read: Inmon's book Building the Data Warehouse (very understandable) Kimball's articles from his site and from the Intelligententerprise.com site (somewhat understandable, I

RE: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated?

2002-05-23 Thread Jack Silvey
by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 23-05-2002 11:13 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Fax to: Subject:RE: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated? Dennis

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2002-05-23 Thread Madhusudhanan Sampath
: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated? Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 07:33:26 -0800 Rachel - Glad Inmon's book is working for you. I have only read (or more correctly attempted to read) his articles, which can be found at http://www.datawarehousing.com/, or at least

RE: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you

2002-05-22 Thread FOX, Simon
- From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 4:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you gee, and here I thought all I had to do was put the book under my pillow and let the words

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2002-05-22 Thread Thomas Day
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2002-05-22 Thread Jared . Still
PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated? I am new to his books, three chapters in. The first release of the Data Warehouse

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2002-05-22 Thread Ruth Gramolini
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2002-05-22 Thread Jack Silvey
MacGregor, Ian A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/21/2002 05:48 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated? I am

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2002-05-22 Thread Jack Silvey
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2002-05-22 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
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2002-05-22 Thread Thomas Day
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2002-05-22 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
Warehouse experts, a simple question for you| Outdated? I am new to his books, three chapters in. The first release of the Data Warehouse Toolkit defines a data warehouse much as a data mart is today. Today we think of a data warehouse as having a highly normalized structure which stores

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2002-05-21 Thread Jared . Still
: Subject:Re: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you looks like published aug of 98 for that book?, like $60? joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe, Add a generated PK to the time dimension. The PK is stored as an FK in the fact table. That way you can select from

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2002-05-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you looks like published aug of 98 for that book?, like $60? joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe, Add a generated PK to the time dimension. The PK is stored as an FK

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2002-05-21 Thread Jack Silvey
Warehouse experts, a simple question for you looks like published aug of 98 for that book?, like $60? joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe, Add a generated PK to the time dimension. The PK is stored as an FK in the fact table. That way you can select from the time dimension

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2002-05-21 Thread Jack Silvey
to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you looks like published aug of 98 for that book?, like $60? joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

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2002-05-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you looks like published aug of 98 for that book?, like $60? joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe, Add a generated PK to the time dimension. The PK

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2002-05-21 Thread Gogala, Mladen
apart. Make sure that you have few gallons of water at hand, though. -Original Message- From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 4:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you gee

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2002-05-21 Thread DENNIS WILLIAMS
:Re: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you looks like published aug of 98 for that book?, like $60? joe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe, Add a generated PK to the time dimension. The PK is stored as an FK in the fact table. That way you can select from the time dimension by year

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2002-05-21 Thread Jack Silvey
PROTECTED] 05/20/2002 05:53 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you looks like published aug

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2002-05-21 Thread Jack Silvey
. -Original Message- From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 4:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you gee, and here I thought all I had to do was put the book

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2002-05-21 Thread Paula_Stankus
Title: RE: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you Okay you guys are silly. I have probably a stupid basic question to ask. How important is it to store data (let's say state codes, county codes with leading zeroes as character versus numeric). What is the standard out there? Does

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2002-05-21 Thread MacGregor, Ian A.
Joe Testa [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 05/20/2002 05:53 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you looks like published aug

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2002-05-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
that you have few gallons of water at hand, though. -Original Message- From: Rachel Carmichael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2002 4:39 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you gee, and here I

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2002-05-21 Thread Rachel Carmichael
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Data Warehouse experts, a simple question for you

2002-05-20 Thread Joe Testa
Ok i'm messing with dimensions. dm_time to be exact: create table dm_time ( calendar_date date not null, calendar_month number(2) not null, calendar_qtr number(1) not null, calendar_year number(4) not null); insert into dm_time values(to_date('20020101','MMDD'), 1,1,2002); insert

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