RE: Database Views

Hello Srini

We had a case like this where one of the tables was in a database that reside in a remote site.
Our solution was to create a table that combine employees tables from 2 site into one TABLE in the local site.

This way the select and join is done ONCE at night.

Yechiel Adar, Mehish Computer Services
adary_at_mehish.co.il

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> Subject: Database Views
>
> I would like get your opinion on what would be the best way provide access
> to data across multiple databases on just on Node (database).
>
> One way that I have tried is create a view on one database that reads
> tables
> across remaining four databases using Dblinks. Let us say there is a
> table
> called CUSTOMER that resides on five databases, in order to make it easier
> to generate reports, a combined view can be created with dblinks on these
> tables using UNION ALL on one database.
>
> Only concern I have is that when using Dblinks, Oracle might copy the
> entire
> remote table to the local database and then retrieve the data based on
> where
> clause. This might be a significant performance issue especially if the
> tables are very BIG.
>
> If there are better ways to accomplish this or any ideas on this one will
> be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> Thank you,
> Srini
>
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