Re: INFORMATION_SCHEMA views in Oracle

No, my request is not reinventing the wheel. I'm very familiar with the objects in Oracle data dictionary. To be clear, INFORMATION_SCHEMA is a SQL-92 metadata implementation that some vendors (such as Microsoft, surprisingly) have implemented, while others (Oracle, in this case) have not. Oracle's reason for not implementing this is because the data dictionary views do in fact provide all of the information defined by INFORMATION_SCHEMA. I have no problem with that. The system I'm migrating, however, makes extensive use of this INFORMATION_SCHEMA metadata, so rather than re-write those calls to make them Oracle-compliant I need to first see if it would be a less time-intensive task to implement the schema (this is important to my client, to minimize codebase modifications). And, given that nature of the problem, it seems prudent to see if someone else hasn't already given it a shot before diving in.

So your response to my post was, frankly, unecessarily confrontational and abrasive. There are enough rude people on the Internet. You don't need to be one of them.

Craig

DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1099098801.860646_at_yasure>...
> Craig Warman wrote:
>
> > I'm working on a MS SQL to Oracle migration project for a Perl-based
> > system. This system makes use of the INFORMATION_SCHEMA metadata
> > implementation in MS SQL. I'd like to emulate that in an Oracle
> > 9.2.0.4 instance, which (I believe) means I'll need to develop some
> > equivalent views in a schema of that name.
> >
> > I've done a good bit of searching, and found a posting in this forum
> > by Peter Weighill (link below) that provides a starting point. But
> > before I go re-inventing the wheel, has anyone come up with anything
> > more comprehensive than what Peter posts there? If so, I'd like to
> > build on that if I could.
> >
> > Here's a link to the above-mentioned post:
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=ca4tin%24sca%241%40hercules.btinternet.com
> >
> > Also, if this post comes to the attention of Peter Weighill, just
> > wanted to pass on my thanks for his having shared that info.
> >
> > Craig
>
> Your entire request is "reinventing the wheel": You just need to learn
> the objects in the data dictionary.
>
> Log onto Oracle with DBA privs and perform the following:
> SELECT * FROM dictionary;
> Which item has what you are looking for you'll need to figure out as
> you've given us no hints.
Received on Mon Nov 01 2004 - 08:11:08 CST