Re: Dbms_metadata experts?

From: Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 12:55:49 -0500
Message-Id: <CFFD0824-9FF7-460F-AE12-605D143BCEAE_at_gmail.com>

Well, it does look I can use the replace function on the get_ddl call. That works, but just doesn't seem very neat to me. Does anyone know of a way to do this using the functionality of the dbms_metadata package? Or maybe I am just being a little OCD. :)

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> On Mar 18, 2015, at 11:47 AM, Stefan Knecht <knecht.stefan_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> Andrew
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> If that's the only change you need to do - change char() to varchar2() - you won't need to bother with dbms_metadata nor dbms_redefinition:
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> SYS_at_DEV > create table t (x char(10));
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> Table created.
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> SYS_at_DEV > alter table t modify ( x varchar2(10));
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> Table altered.
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> Stefan
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>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:42 PM, Andrew Kerber <andrew.kerber_at_gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ok.  I am looking to find help with dbms_metadata. This may not be possible, but I have a bunch of tables I need to change the layout on with dbms_redefinition. I need to change all the char data types to varchar2. Is there any way to set a transformation in dbms_metadata to do that transformation as the DDL is generated for the interim table?
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