I remember when anydata was first discussed a few months ago. I questioned how it could be part of proper database design; from what domain would the anydata column draw its values? As I recall everyone advised against its use, "It is a bad idea in Access and so it is in Oracle." was the gist of the comments. One wag proposed having two fields in the database, a sequence based primary key and the anydata field. Apparently that person was too shy to rely on rowid's :)
Why did you decide to use anydata? How does it benefit to your application? It strikes me as a bad idea, but I have not researched it at length. Ian MacGregor Stanford Linear Accelerator Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 10:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Stephane, if there is a new function, then it is hidden so deeply in the docs that even I can't find it. And I'm pretty good and coming up with "creative" search patterns. ANYDATA is an object, a way of storing different types of data in a single column. You store the data type metadata with the column. More information on this... when the other DBA ran the PL/SQL routine in a different account which had "resource" instead of just "connect" privileges, it ran.... interesting! Rachel --- Stephane Faroult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rachel, > > First time I hear about the ANYDATA type but I like to share my > ignorance and I guess it must be something akin to a C 'void *' - ie > a pointer to 'something'. To bind properly, Oracle needs two things : > a) a pointer to the start of the memory area > b) something to tell how big this memory area is. Either it's a 'well > known' type, or you must use an end marker (typically, a '0' with > character strings), or you must explicitly give a size. > > IMHO Oracle blows up because b) is missing. If you can insert, there > must be some way of telling it how large the variable is. I can't see > why it would be specific to an update (except if the PL/SQL engine is > buggy, which obviously it is, but even more so than appears to the > eye). Are you sure that there is not some obscure new function ... ? > > HTH > > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Rachel Carmichael INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: MacGregor, Ian A. INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
