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Re: Oracle Newbie question: Accessing and Deleting Data

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 13:30:23 +0100
Message-ID: <3cece0df$0$8513$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net>


Do you come from another RDBMS background MSSQL perhaps? A datafile is not a database. I'd suggest a read of the Oracle concepts guide before you go any further.

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Niall Litchfield
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"Robert Bollinger" <robert_bollinger_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Hi -- I am trying to access the data in a database: DAILYDATA.DBF
>
> If I log on as System/manager I know I have access to the data but do
> not know how to go about doing it.
>
> From the PLSQL prompt SQL> do you "use dailydata.dbf" set a workspace
> to access it? I know this is got to be simple for those in the know.
> Thanks.
>
> I am actually trying to delete all the rows in that database. Please
> help.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Robbie Bollinger
Received on Thu May 23 2002 - 07:30:23 CDT

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