Directly changing the database is not evil, one just needs to be educated around what they are doing. Don't be foolish might be a better way to phrase this, if one is not educated around what they are doing.
On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 5:46 AM, Jose Manuel Huerta Guillén < arsl...@theremedyforit.com> wrote: > ** My recommendation is: don't be evil if possible! > > Directly changing values at the database is being evil! > > Regards, > > Jose Manuel Huerta > http://theremedyforit.com/ > > > > > On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Halleux, Jean-Louis < > jean-louis.hall...@scarlet.biz> wrote: > >> >> Do not forget that changing the login needs to be done in any row of any >> table, as the submitter, the assignee or the status history could >> contain the login. >> >> As Sylvain did, I wrote a script (for Oracle) that reads all character >> fields from the database, and dynamically creates update queries to >> replace one value with another. It takes also a night to run, and during >> that time your AR Server needs to be stopped. >> >> Best regards, >> Jean-Louis > > > _attend WWRUG12 www.wwrug.com ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are"_ > _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org attend wwrug12 www.wwrug12.com ARSList: "Where the Answers Are"
