Re: simple ? question

Stephane,

Well spoken- my bad. Our developer threw me this question when I was just leaving from work. (I copied her email to the list) Now I am at home and taking a chance to look it over again. I am not sure what she asked for. My guess is she wants to pass a variable based on @xxx to access the schema. I will make it clear tomorrow. I have been very busy lately and we have too many projects going on at once. Please bear with me if I didn't put my effort into it.

Many thanks,
Joan

Stephane Faroult wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Stephane Faroult
> Oriole Software
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