Re: Better error messages?

From: Van Messner <vmessner_at_netaxis.com>
Date: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 17:39:12 -0500
Message-ID: <TuKu2.216$cm6.834@news7.ispnews.com>

I certainly agree with you about this message, and many others as well. I have no idea who you'd contact, but let the whole group know when you find out.

Van

Mungo Henning wrote in message <36BAF47C.9FA4CAD5_at_itacs.strath.ac.uk>...
>Whilst struggling with saving forms to the database the other
>day I got a persistent ORA-00942 "table or view does not exist"
>error message.
>Am I alone in thinking that this error message (if not others)
>would benefit by naming the table which "does not exist" ?
>I agree that were you to insert one record using sqlplus into
>the database and there was no such table (or you did not have access
>to it) then the message will suffice, but when things get more
>complicated via packages and triggers in LARGE systems then any
>help via the error message would be useful.
>
>Or is there additional security by not naming the errant target
>table?
>Thoughts please (and if you agree with me, who do I send my idea
>to at Oracle?)
>
>Mungo Henning
Received on Fri Feb 05 1999 - 16:39:12 CST