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Re: how can you protect read-only indexes?

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2005 08:40:51 +0000
Message-ID: <7765c89705030400406113dc58@mail.gmail.com>


On Thu, 3 Mar 2005 16:39:46 -0500, Khedr, Waleed <Waleed.Khedr_at_fmr.com> wrote:
> Read only has to do with dml, has nothing to do with ddl.
>
> Waleed

That is true, and was rather the point of my demo. I agree that its counter-intuitive. read-only files can't be removed from the filesystem without a warning, it isn't unreasonable to expect similar behaviour for database objects. Wrong, but not unreasonable.

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