RE: swizzle?

The tech writer of this stuff must be an interesting person.... A former bar tender, may be ??? ;) believing in 'one for the docs' ;)

• Kirti

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Charlie Mengler wrote:
>
> I'm RTFM the 9i R2 docs & I just read the following...
>
> ALTER_TABLE_REFERENCEABLE Procedure
> This procedure reorganizes object tables and swizzles references. For
example, assume you have an object table FOO and that
> references in other tables point to objects stored in FOO. If you want to
change some of the table organization--for example, you
> want to make it an IOT or a partitioned table, or you want to reorganize
the data more efficiently--you copy all data from FOO
> into FOO2. Then you use the alter_table_referenceable and
alter_table_not_referenceable procedures to swizzle all existing
> references to point to FOO2 instead of FOO.
>
> I'd like to know the definition of "swizzle", 'cuz I just don't grok it
used in this context.
>
> --
> Charlie Mengler Maintenance Warehouse

Makes the SGA looks like swizzle cheese.

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