From: "Holger Heidenbluth" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.tools References: <4p6qft41n02acthl4q7id14bjqp12gs5mb@4ax.com> Subject: Re: DDL export Date: Mon, 14 May 2001 09:11:48 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <3aff85b8$0$14101$4dbef881@businessnews.de.uu.net> Organization: Customer of UUNET Deutschland GmbH NNTP-Posting-Host: 213.69.100.34 X-Trace: 989824441 businessnews.de.uu.net 14101 213.69.100.34 X-Complaints-To: abuse@de.uu.net The Reverse/DDL engineer from KeepTool (www.keeptool.com) creates DDL script for the entire schema or any selection of objects. Regards Holger christopher keller schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: 4p6qft41n02acthl4q7id14bjqp12gs5mb@4ax.com... > Hello, > In UDB I can with one command generate a readable text file of DDL > (along with triggers, etc.) for a database, which I can then easily > manipulate and store it in a non-Oracle repository (with DB2 mainframe > we'd just read the catalog with SQL if we didn't have a tool). > > My DBA for Oracle claims that this is not possible, he's come up with > nothing better than an export file. Working this over is just too > costly. Surely, this problem is easily solved with Oracle means. > Could someone point me in the right direction? Or is the right > direction away from Oracle to another RDBMS? > > TIA, Christopher Keller