Re: Can you trigger an automatic WHERE-clause on any statement on a table?

[Quoted] Wouldn't this be an ideal way to use the new virtual db 'thing' in 8.2, errr, 9i ? - I had thought this was also going to be available in 8.1.7.

[Quoted] On Tue, 10 Oct 2000 08:36:40 +0100, "Andrew Hardy" <Andrew.Hardy_at_BGTechnology.com> wrote:

>It is not possible to set a WHERE clause for a table in such a manner.
>
>The nearest thing that I can think of is to use a VIEW with a where clause
>that includes the USER, rename the table and name the view to the name that
>the table did have.
>
>Andy
>Jacob <jacmads_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:0y4E5.18745$Ly1.252129_at_news5.giganews.com...
>> Hi all
>>
>> We are currently in the process of migrating a previous single-user
>> application to a multi-user application running on the web using Forms
>> Server 6i on Oracle8i 8.1.6 on Windows NT. The multi-user application is
>> supposed to be based on user rights specified in a user table, which
>> contains information about, which modules of the application, the user is
>> allowed to use.
>>
>> The existing database schema will be changed to include a "user_id" tuple
 in
>> each table, which contains user data. This tuple will reference the user
>> table's primary key "user_id". This means, that either we have to change a
>> lot of SQL statement throughout the program to include "WHERE <user
>> data-table>.user_id = users.user_id" (the "users.user_id" is at login
>> compared with "SELECT USER FROM DUAL", and if no rows returned, the user
 is
>> denied application login).
>>
>> Does anyone know, if it is possible to create a trigger or some other
>> database mechanism, which you could use on the user data tables, which
>> automatically appends the mentioned WHERE-clause, or do we have to re-code
>> all the SQL statements in the application?
>>
>> Any advice on this subject would be greatly appreciated!
>>
>> Thanks in advance
>> Jacob
>>
>> jacmads_at_hotmail.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
Received on Tue Oct 10 2000 - 09:49:56 CEST