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Pleaese clear my doubt about View and synonym having same name [message #671974]

Wed, 26 September 2018 09:29

Akmmhto
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Suppose a db has view and synonym having same name,
Say the name is "ABC".
If I query:
Select * from ABC;

Then from where db will extract data...from view or synonym.
Is there any chances performance issue...

Thanks in advance

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Re: Pleaese clear my doubt about View and synonym having same name [message #671977 is a reply to message #671974]

Wed, 26 September 2018 09:49

John Watson
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You need to think about namespaces and precedence. Within a schema, views and synonyms share ther same namespace so the situation you describe is impossible:

pdby1> create view v1 as select * from emp;

View created.

pdby1> create synonym v1 for dept;
create synonym v1 for dept
               *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00955: name is already used by an existing object


pdby1>

However, public synonyms live in their own namespace so I can do this:

pdby1> create public synonym v1 for dept;

Synonym created.

pdby1>

so now, test what happens when you run

select * from v1;

and your question will be answered.

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Re: Pleaese clear my doubt about View and synonym having same name [message #671980 is a reply to message #671977]

Wed, 26 September 2018 12:59

Michel Cadot
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Very good demo. /forum/fa/2115/0/

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Re: Pleaese clear my doubt about View and synonym having same name [message #672007 is a reply to message #671974]

Thu, 27 September 2018 09:42

cookiemonster
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Akmmhto wrote on Wed, 26 September 2018 15:29

Suppose a db has view and synonym having same name,
Say the name is "ABC".
If I query:
Select * from ABC;

Then from where db will extract data...from view or synonym.
Is there any chances performance issue...

Thanks in advance

Synonyms don't cause performance issues. They may cause bugs if they are pointing to a different object than the one you think they're pointing at.

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Re: Pleaese clear my doubt about View and synonym having same name [message #672008 is a reply to message #671977]

Thu, 27 September 2018 09:43

cookiemonster
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And of course you can have a view in one schema and a private synonym of the same name in a different schema that points to the view.

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Re: Pleaese clear my doubt about View and synonym having same name [message #672009 is a reply to message #672008]

Thu, 27 September 2018 09:45

cookiemonster
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If you run
select * from name

then oracle will check to see if there is a table, view or synonym in the current schema and if so query that object (or object the synonym points to).

If it can't find a match then it'll look for a public synonym with the name and use that.

In a given schema you can't have a view or table or synonym with the same name.

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Re: Pleaese clear my doubt about View and synonym having same name [message #672037 is a reply to message #672009]

Fri, 28 September 2018 12:07

Akmmhto
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Thank a lot , You all helped me to clear my confusion...

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