Re: Rename a Oracle table

From: Georg Scholz <georg.scholz_at_vienna.at>
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 13:09:28 GMT
Message-ID: <cGav9.192520$N_6.2812945@news.chello.at>

Dear Master Sybrand,

I think you possibly have too much experience already and cannot put yourself into a beginner's position.

It's very easy to say "RTFM", but what if the manual actually consists of *** 23 *** Volumes (Oracle 8.1.7), some of them being 1000+ pages?

As a beginner, you sometimes even don't know where to look up.

BTW, in this "rename" case, I even myself learned something new. Actually, I didn't know the RENAME statement existed at all! I once needed it myself; I then looked at "ALTER TABLE", but found nothing, so I created a new table and copied the data.

So if a question is annoying you, because it's "too simple", then please either ignore it or at least write WHERE TO LOOK UP, instead of simply telling a beginner to go to hell (and wasting your own time, by the way)

Best Regards

Georg Scholz

"Sybrand Bakker" <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:a20d28ee.0210280209.19ec678d_at_posting.google.com...
> "charlie cs" <cs3526_at_ureach.com> wrote in message
news:<BL1v9.6471$IU6.880_at_nwrddc03.gnilink.net>...
> > Sybrand,
> >
> > Why are you always so tough on those new comers?
> > It is easy for you but it might be difficult to them. You can always
ignore
> > them, there is always some people like me who is willing to answer those
> > questions.
> >
> > rename xx to yy.
> >
>
>
> Too many newcomers are just too lazy to query the manual. That has
> nothing to do with difficulty, they can post, so they can read. Oracle
> has a master index, a simple lookup of the 'rename' keyword, would
> have provided the OP with an answer.
> Answering RTFM questions just encourages that behavior, please stop
> doing that.
>
>
> Regards
>
> Sybrand Bakker
> Senior Oracle DBA
Received on Mon Oct 28 2002 - 07:09:28 CST