Re: [GENERAL] alter table alter type CASCADE

2010-05-05 Thread Peter Hunsberger
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Thom Brown wrote: > On 5 May 2010 13:14, Chris Barnes wrote: >> >> It has been some years since I worked with Oracle, doesn't Oracle >> recompile the view when the object it references changes in structure? >> Send > > What does Oracle do when you've got a view lik

Re: [GENERAL] alter table alter type CASCADE

2010-05-05 Thread Scott Marlowe
2010/5/5 Sim Zacks : > One of the biggest problems I have maintaining a database with a lot of > views is that when I want to change a datatype, I have to drop every > view uses the column and every view that uses those views etc... > This turns into a maintenance nightmare. Then I would question

Re: [GENERAL] alter table alter type CASCADE

2010-05-05 Thread Thom Brown
On 5 May 2010 13:14, Chris Barnes wrote: > > It has been some years since I worked with Oracle, doesn't Oracle recompile > the view when the object it references changes in structure? > Send > What does Oracle do when you've got a view like: CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW test_view AS SELECT test.test

Re: [GENERAL] alter table alter type CASCADE

2010-05-05 Thread Chris Barnes
It has been some years since I worked with Oracle, doesn't Oracle recompile the view when the object it references changes in structure? Send From: thombr...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 10:12:34 +0100 Subject: Re: [GENERAL] alter table alter type CASCADE To: s...@compulab.co.

Re: [GENERAL] alter table alter type CASCADE

2010-05-05 Thread Thom Brown
2010/5/5 Sim Zacks > One of the biggest problems I have maintaining a database with a lot of > views is that when I want to change a datatype, I have to drop every > view uses the column and every view that uses those views etc... > This turns into a maintenance nightmare. > > Is there any intent

[GENERAL] alter table alter type CASCADE

2010-05-05 Thread Sim Zacks
One of the biggest problems I have maintaining a database with a lot of views is that when I want to change a datatype, I have to drop every view uses the column and every view that uses those views etc... This turns into a maintenance nightmare. Is there any intention of adding a CASCADE to alter