Re: Workaround for > 1000 columns?

Please note the restriction was 254 in Oracle 7, so you already have 4 times as much.
IMHO, a table with 1000 columns has nothing to do with relational design.

Regards,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

<carlona_at_georgetown.edu> wrote in message news:8i3c1a$hej$1_at_nnrp1.deja.com...
> Hey, guys. I seem to have a problem.
>
> Oracle has decided that I don't need a table with more than 1000
> columns, and rather than give me enough rope to hang my database and the
> computer it runs on, it won't let me create one. I feel I have just
> such a need, however, and splitting it into two tables would be a major
> hassle, especially from a user's perspective (having >1000 variables is
> bad enough without having to look for which table the right variable is
> in).
>
> Does anyone know about a workaround for this? I can't create views with
> > 1000 columns either, but are there any other view-like items/options?
> This lousy rule (a round number like 1000 -- as opposed to something
> like 1024 -- has to be arbitrary) might throw another complication into
> our project, which I dislike.
>
> Thanks a lot!
>
> Andrew Carlon
>
>
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Received on Mon Jun 12 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT