Re: Rename a Oracle table

Billy Verreynne <vslabs_at_onwe.co.za> wrote in message news:<aplf5g$950$1_at_ctb-nnrp2.saix.net>...
> Tim Kearsley wrote:
>
> <snipped>
>
> Some of what you say is true. However, it is VERY obvious when someone does
> not even bother to read the manual.
>
> 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.
>
> 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?

Don't know about Tim. But others will. And do.

>
> A person that runs to this newsgroup when he does not know how to rename a
> table, is FRIGGEN LAZY. Period.
>
> I for one, like Sybrand, refuse to spoon feed leeches.
>
> RTFM.
Received on Thu Oct 31 2002 - 10:24:39 CST