Re: adding a comment to user accounts

On Jan 9, 1:41 pm, Mark D Powell <Mark.Pow..._at_eds.com> wrote:
> On Jan 9, 9:35 am, Maxim Demenko <mdeme..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> > DA Morgan schrieb:
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> > > m..._at_pixar.com wrote:
> > >> When creating a user account, is there a good way to add a comment
> > >> regarding that user account?  Something like "test account for
> > >> ldap synchronizer", etc?
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> > >> Many TIA!
> > >> Mark
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> > > No: Not even a bad way.
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> > > You could create a table to store it if you wish but no matter
> > > what you do it will be the equivalent of 3x5 cards.
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> > On the other side, it is matter of 5 minutes to setup a tiny ApEx
> > webpage on that table and suddenly it can be shared among coworkers...
> > (as opposite to 3x5 cards ;-)).
> > As matter of personal preferences, i like that
> > keep-all-you-need-in-the-database approach...
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> > Best regards
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> > Maxim
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> LOL
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> Right now the people responsible for adding new user accounts to the
> system have to record this information via their processes.  If this
> is put into a text file or a table really depends on what your site
> needs and who has the time to set it up.
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> Maybe someone should file an enhancement request to extend the Oracle
> comment command to also cover USERs as well as tables and columns.
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> HTH -- Mark D Powell

Or you could have a schema with nothing but tables named after departments with columns named after users...

(need ASCII art of horse pushing cart)

jg

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