Re: simple ? question

Joan Hsieh wrote:
>
> Hi Listers,
>
> I am trying to find a way to know the schema name. Say, if I logged in
> as jjin01_at_ngd. When I run a program, how can I get the schema name
> which should be "ngd"? If I logged in as bkrasnof_at_pr, in this case, the
> schema name will be "pr".
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Joan

Joan,

  Beware of vocabulary: what is usually called the 'schema name' is the name of the Oracle account which owns the tables.

   select global_name from global_name;

will return the name of the database. But beware that the name of the database has no link to your @ngd which is just your tns alias (locally defined very often). Most people give as tns alias the name of the SID which is in turn the name of the database, but this is just a common sense rule - nothing mandatory here. It's usually pretty clean on Unix, but under NT a lot of databases have 'ORCL' has their SID, are of course referred to under different names in TNSNAMES.ora and _may_ not have a significant global name (can be changed with 'alter database').

Great opportunity to set up company standards.

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