Re: Output data from database to CSV without revealing structure?

Daniel,
  If someone had lots of time on their hands couldn't they figure out which FKs went together, thus revealing how it was normalized?

  Granted, we are talking lots of free time.

"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_exesolutions.com> wrote in message news:3E38C725.5034935F_at_exesolutions.com...
> Allen Gibbons wrote:
>
> > I have been asked to extract data from about 100 Oracle database
> > tables and output it into comma delimited files. This would be a simple
> > task except that the output should NOT reveal any of the structure
within
> > the database (ie, no normalization, referential integrity, etc.)
> >
> > Has anyone out there had to do something similar to that described
above?
> >
> > Any ideas would be much appreciated.
> >
> > AEG
>
> No data contains normalization or referential integrity so the question
makes
> no sense as stated. If the point is to dump the tables then the dump is
the
> dump is the dump. It is nothing but data so it will contain what it
contains.
>
> If the point is to dump the tables and mix-up the data then just dump it
in
> the most egregiously convoluted manner you can.
>
> I have deleted your posting to cdo.tools and c.d.o.miscellaneous to stop
the
> cross-posting.
>
> Daniel Morgan
>
Received on Thu Jan 30 2003 - 08:24:11 CST