Re: Developer 2000: Why use Object ID instead of Object Name?
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 08:36:09 -0600
Message-ID: <75b5gd$751$1_at_news1.inlink.com>
[Quoted] One example would be if you want to allow multiple instances of a form... they'll all have the same name, but different ID's. I'm sure there are other cases (or forms would be the only one that allowed ID's), but that's [Quoted] the one I seem to run into the most.
John Haskins <76054.334_at_compuserve.com> wrote in message
<75a9e9$r2v$1_at_news-2.news.gte.net>...
>I'm working with Developer's built-ins and noticing that many of them
accept
>either an object name or an object ID as input. Why go to the extra
trouble
>to create a variable to store the object ID, extract the object's ID with
>FIND_objectname, and then use it? Since you have to know the object's name
>to get the ID anyway, it seems it's easier to just use the name and be done
>with it.
>
>Opinions on this are welcome...I'm sure there's some reason Oracle went to
>the trouble to make this feature available.
>
>
Received on Thu Dec 17 1998 - 15:36:09 CET