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And thus, a new Urban Legend has begun!
Too bad. Because of their refusal to do a little research, it costs you a Sunday of work. I hope you get paid a little something extra!
From: Zanen van, J (Jacob) [mailto:Jacob.van.Zanen_at_rabobank.com]
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 6:12 PM
To: Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR); oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Reorg to put columns in order
Thx for all the replies
Confirmed I am not crazy :-)
The political war has been fought (by my manager mostly ) and lost. this 1 minute job became a sunday job as it can not be done during business hours.
Brgds
Jack
From: Mercadante, Thomas F (LABOR)
[mailto:Thomas.Mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us]
Sent: Tuesday, 23 October 2007 1:06 AM
To: Zanen van, J (Jacob); oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: RE: Reorg to put columns in order
Jack,
It sounds like you are running into more of a political issue rather than a technical one.
Two ways to deal with it:
Do what they wish, but explain that you need "migration time" to accomplish the task whenever they add a column. Tell them it takes half a day because it may take this long on a large table to create the new table and bring all the data over to it.
Explain that this is totally unneeded because BO does not care (according to Kerber & Naim). But this will force you into learning how to do this to show them.
Either way, you have some work to do.
Tom
From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Zanen van, J (Jacob)
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2007 2:00 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Reorg to put columns in order
Hi All,
I'm having a bit of an issue with our designers/developers for our so called "datawarehouse"
Columns are added to tables every so often based on requirements from the business. They however insist on doing a reorg to get the columns in a certain order so when they pull them up in BO the columns show up in an order that makes sense to them. I have raised my doubts about this procedure as it takes a 2 second job and squeezes it in a 7 hour job.
I can see from a chained/migrated row point of view that there might be a valid reason for it but since they have always done it this I see no way for me to find out how bad this is going to be. I suspect for most of these tables it won't make much difference as they are not filled with data for historical records AFAIK.
My solution for them was to create a view on top of the table but they rejected the idea and insist this is the way to go.
Anybody have any insight for me.
Thnx
Jack
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