Re: Reverse Engineering and selecting specific tables

From: HansF <News.Hans_at_telus.net>
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 20:53:31 GMT
Message-Id: <pan.2005.10.31.20.52.06.751997@telus.net>

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 08:25:12 -0800, Peter Nolan amused us by writing:

>
> I see no hard and fast answer.....but I do see a benefit going to the
> underlying table...

The biggest benefit of going to the underlying table is to need to check whether Oracle has changed the table definition or even table purpose - each and every time they issue a patch.

IOW, the benefit is job security. <g>

Oracle has placed guarantees about the stability of the TRM-documented views right into the documentation.

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