Re: Definition of 'shape'

• What is the definition of 'shape'? Depends On What Definition of "Is" Is!

.. seriously .. it depends. In what context are you asking this? Shape as in geometry. Could be a term in oracle spatial... Shape could be like "shape I'm in" .. the shape an object is in .. or as this ora error goes:
23370, 00000, "table %s and table %s are not shape equivalent (%s)" // *Cause: The tables specified are not shape equivalent, which means
// intuitively that the number of columns, the names, their
datatypes
// and lengths are not the same. Specifically, problem is
// in the parentheses and is one of the following: the number
of
// columns are not equal, datatypes of columns with
// same name in different tables are different, lengths of
// varchar2 and char columns are not equal, precision and
// scale of number datatypes are not equal.
// *Action: Make sure the two tables being compared have the same
// number of columns, same column names, and same datatypes.

Anurag Received on Wed Apr 05 2006 - 15:54:48 CDT