Re: Why Oracle Enforce Name Uniquness ???!!!

HansF wrote:
> As to 'why' ... as I'd already mentioned, it's Oracle's sandbox so they
> can use the rules they wish. I'm sure there were historical reasons that
> have influenced recent decisions.
> What I find interesting is that the original poster was surprised to get
> caught on this AND did not use the documentation.
Hans,

Actually I don't find that interesting at all. Reason being that I get requests the other way around all the time, just on DB2. There are two reasons to get surprised I can think of: 1. The rules are different in other products and all that's needed is some outside experience to get surprised by the change. 2. The rules are unintuitive. That is they cannot be reasoned in an obvious fashion.
I'm in no position to throw stones in the glass house here, btw. Just amused by the prevalent acceptance of any quirk in this group. My crowd is way more critical.

Are you saying you always read the manual first and never get surprised? ;-)

Cheers
Serge

PS: I'm reading up on how packages fit into the object model. Will experiment once I get back into the office.

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Serge Rielau
DB2 Solutions Development
IBM Toronto Lab

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