More Probs in 8.40D

[Michael Lee]

Hi Harold,

Have you tried using CURSORs in QUIZ instead of just files? It's a bit 
of work figuring out how to use them but they may fix your problem and 
they are a lot faster that just using the ACCESS statement.

Regards,

Michael Lee
MCL Systems Inc.

Johnson, Harold A EDUC:EX wrote:

>OpenVMS 7.3
>OracleRDB 7.1
>
>Oracle 8i on some other box.
>
>Hi all.   I've opened a new problem with Cognos on Mar.25th:
>
>Subject: RE: [Call Reference: 3246754] Strange behaviour 
>
>We have a couple of specific processes that hit an Oracle8i database (read
>only).  I have a very strange problem and was wondering if anyone else has
>seen this or can duplicate it.
>
>
>In PH830d, using quiz, the command "access <view> in <oracledb>"  actually
>runs the code:
>
>SELECT A.TABLE_NAME,A.INDEX_NAME,
>A.UNIQUENESS,B.COLUMN_POSITION,B.COLUMN_NAME
>FROM ALL_INDEXES A, ALL_IND_COLUMNS B 
>WHERE A.TABLE_OWNER = :owner1 AND A.TABLE_NAME IN ( :name1 ) AND A.OWNER =
>B.INDEX_OWNER AND A.INDEX_NAME = B.INDEX_NAME 
>ORDER BY A.UNIQUENESS DESC, A.INDEX_NAME, B.COLUMN_POSITION
>
>In PH840d, using quiz, the same command runs the code:
>
>SELECT * FROM <view>
>
>
>As you can probably guess, I can't compile any programs properly (quiz, qts
>or quick) because it's actually getting the data instead of the meta data.
>This has been verified by our DBA.  The compile eventually completes, but it
>takes a long time (hours).   We didn't notice it in deve or test because of
>the small database size.   Only in production was this problem found.
>
>???
>
>signed Dazed and Confuzed.
>
>  
>