Re: Rename a Oracle table

Billy Verreynne <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote in message news:<aplf5g$950$1_at_ctb-nnrp2.saix.net>...

> Some of what you say is true. However, it is VERY obvious when someone does
> not even bother to read the manual.

I agree. So simply don't answer them if it offends you that they post here. End of story - no rude replies or "Go away" instructions needed.

> How to rename a table is one of them. How to select a column into a variable
> in PL/SQL is another.
>
> People like that, do deserve the odd lead pipe in the face.

A bit aggressive aren't you? Would you have appreciated "the odd lead pipe in the face" when you were on the learning path?

> What is the _FIRST_ thing that most of us do when we hit an Oracle problem?
>
> Post to this newsgroup?
>
> Nope. Like many others, my browser home page is the Oracle HTML
> documentation.
>
> If I can not remember how to rename a table, I use it. It is a SQL command.
> So it will be discussed in the SQL Manual. Less than a minute later, I will
> have the syntax for the RENAME SQL command displayed.
>
> A problem with SQL*Loader? SQL*Plus? Export? Import? Each of these are
> covered, and covered well.
>
> No is saying to read every single page of a 1000 page Oracle manual, and
> read every one of the 10+ odd Oracle manuals. But is is UTTER STUPIDITY to
> say that because of the size and volume of these manuals, you can not be
> bothered to use it. For heavensakes, each manual has a title. SQL syntax
> will be in the SQL Manual. No rocket science needed. Each manual comes with
> an index.
>
> A person that can not use a manual properly. Can not use the manual's index.
> Can not associate his problem of how to rename a table (a SQL command) with
> the SQL manual... will you employ a person like that Tim?
>

What has all that got to do with the point? The point is, if you don't like a question that somebody has posted then DON'T ANSWER!! Don't clog everything up further by having tantrums and being rude to people. It achieves nothing except perhaps tell the rest of us useful information about your personality.

> A person that runs to this newsgroup when he does not know how to rename a
> table, is FRIGGEN LAZY. Period.

Well, if they post to this newsgroup and no-one answers them then they'll go and read a book.

>
> I for one, like Sybrand, refuse to spoon feed leeches.
>
> RTFM.
And where do YOU draw the line between what's a "valid" question for this newsgroup and what isn't? And is that the same line as Sybrand's, or mine, or any of the other people, from beginner to expert, who use this group? The newsgroup is bigger than any one individual using it - don't impose your standards on everyone else. What's trivial to you may be hard work to someone else.

Tim Kearsley Received on Tue Oct 29 2002 - 07:57:43 CST