And I thought that all "old" people knew cobol .... ;-) I'll try to think of a solution that does involve creating many tables per redefine statement.
Stephane Paquette Administrateur de bases de donnees Database Administrator Standard Life www.standardlife.ca Tel. (514) 499-7999 poste 7470 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- Jared Still Sent: 27 novembre, 2003 15:09 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Carel-Jan, Well, go ahead and spoil all our fun. ;) Seriously though, thanks for posting which part of the fine manual to peruse. If I *knew* COBOL, perhaps I could offer something useful rather than just whining. Now if anyone needs to move from Data-Flex to Oracle, I can offer some ideas. Jared On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 11:44, Carel-Jan wrote: > At 05:44 27-11-03 -0800, you wrote: > >I'm looking for a solution that is using only one table not multiple tables. > >In fact a dynamic column redefinition feature (cobol redefines) is what I > >need in Oracle SQL. > > > >Stephane > > Hi Stephane, > > Instead of flaming Cobol I'll try help you with a solution. Please download > the utilities manual, as I advised last time, look at the SQL*Loader part > and take case study 5. It will tell you exactly what you want. Redefines, > Occurs, all is covered. I think this will solve your problem. You can have > as many INTO TABLE clauses as you like, one for each redefine. Every INTO > TABLE might refer to the same table. The WHEN clause helps you to determine > what INTO TABLE clause to use. > > > To the others in this thread, IMHO Cobol might not be state of the art, > whithout it IT might not have been what it is now. I hate the language, > actually never ever wrote a working program in it due to some mental blocks > connected with the syntax, but I've done many data-conversions of files, > based on the record-layouts. Redefines might be ugly, for those of you who > do not remember the amazing discovery of a 5 MB (spelled MegaByte) > harddisk, and spending 3 hours discussing with 4 programmers how to use > this amazing amount of diskspace in a usefull way some hsitorical awareness > might help. Cobol, coming from the early sixties AFAIK, doesn't support > null-values. Actually, when they started using it, there were no disks at > all. Costs of storage were sky-high, and every byte saved was welcome. So, > redefines, and repeating groups (OCCURS 10 TIMES in a field definition) > really helped people writing usefull programs, based on serial access to > data stored on ticker tapes and magnetic tapes. It is about time to get > some awareness of the history of our trade, before it all fades away. > > Visit Miracle's Oracle museum, running Oracle V5 on a 286 / Dos 6.0 system, > or similar old-fashioned. Do you condemn the T-Ford as well? That doesn't > meet today's standards, but was most important to the development of a > certain country in this world. > > > Regards, Carel-Jan > > -- There will allwasy be another 10 last bugs -- > > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: Carel-Jan > 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.net -- Author: Jared Still 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.net -- Author: Stephane Paquette 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).
