RE: Display view equations?

Lyndon,

You wanted something dynamic and simple. What you are now saying is that you want something easily readable. These might be opposites!

I think you probably need to bite the bullet and produce formal readable documentation that you will keep up to date for the users to easily read!

Sorry.

Tom

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Lyndon Tiu Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 11:15 AM
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Subject: Re: Display view equations?

Thank you for your suggestion.

I have looked into this and it looks promising. The issue I have with this is that the DDL is not exxactly user friendly (as in non-SQL user friendly). We are talking about scientific type folks here who 'could' decipher SQL DDL but would rather have the equation displayed clearly out in-front and not have to read SQL.

Could I somehow easily break up the looong DDL statements stored in the user_views and user_source table and display the equation 'nuggets' one by one instead of the whole SQL DDL line?

Any other suggestions?

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:47:24 -0400 Thomas.Mercadante_at_labor.state.ny.us wrote:
> Lyndon,
>
> You can always make a private view on the user_views or user_source
> table showing the actual ddl for the view.
>
> Select view_name, text from user_views would give you what you need.
> Create a new view for the user to query:
>
> Create view view_ddl as select view_name, text from user_views;
>
> Grant select on view_ddl to your users and you should be all set. You

> may need to grant "select" on user_views to your account to allow the
> view_ddl view to be created.
>
> Tom

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