Re: simple ? question

Stephane,
you are right, after I talked to the developer. She is totally confused by alias name, dbname, schema name. She is referring database name.

joan

Joan Hsieh wrote:
>
> 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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