Re: Why Oracle does not allow rollback of DDL statements?

Shakespeare wrote:
> Mladen Gogala schreef:

>> On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:02:08 +0100, Thomas Kellerer wrote:
>>
>>> But creating objects in a database needs to be consistent as well. I
>>> don't see why having transactional DDL contradicts database consistency.
>>>
>>> Actually I think it adds to consistency.
>>
>> So, I create table, Noons creates an index to that table, in his own
>> schema. If I was able to roll back the table creation, what happens to
>> Nuno's index? Flashback table to before drop is possible with all 
>> releases
>> that support flashback area, since the version 7.3.6.
>>

Depends on which flashback. Flashback database will work ... though doing so has its own implications.

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