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A copy of this was sent to "Rob van der Leer" <lnmsoft_at_lnm.nl>
(if that email address didn't require changing)
On Tue, 8 Jun 1999 16:02:39 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello,
>We've the following problem.
>We've send a SQL-script to a customer which creates tables, indexes etc. on
>an Oracle RDBMS.
>They have Oracle 7.3 running on a Novell Neteware 4.11 server.
>Now they say that their Oracle can't handle long names for tables and other
>db objects.
>It sound very strange to me, but can this be possible???
>If it is possible, can it be changed and does this have any effect on other
>existing databases??
>TIA
>Rob van der Leer
>rvdleer_at_lnm.nl
>
all v7 and v8 releases have the same limit -- 30 characters for identifiers.
Are they perhaps talking about LONG FILENAMES and your create tablespace statements are failing? That would be at the OS level.
See http://www.oracle.com/ideveloper/ for my column 'Digging-in to Oracle8i'... Mirrored (and more current) at http://govt.us.oracle.com/~tkyte/
Current article is "Fine Grained Access Control", added June 8'th
Thomas Kyte tkyte_at_us.oracle.com Oracle Service Industries Reston, VA USA--
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