Subj : ANNOUNCE: DDL::Oracle v1.05
To   : All
From : Richard Sutherland
Date : Sun Mar 11 2001 05:00 am

From: "Richard Sutherland" <rvsutherland@yahoo.com>

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                   Release of DDL::Oracle, Version 1.05
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CHANGES

In version 1.04, use by users without SELECT privileges on V$ views was 
facilitated by adding attributes to the 'configure' method.  By setting the 
'heading' attribute to "0" and supplying values for 'blksize' and
'version' attributes, a non-privileged user could bypass the queries to
V$DATABASE, V$PARAMETER and V$VERSION, respectively.

Andy Duncan (author of Perl module Orac) supplied queries which any user could 
execute to SELECT the values for version and block size.  Thus, the configure 
attributes 'blksize' and 'version' are now deprecated, and privileges on 
V$PARAMETER and V$VERSION are no longer required.  The
'heading' attribute remains in use as previously described.  THANKS, Andy.

Added configure method attribute 'prompt'.  Set this attribute to "0" to 
elimate the "PROMPT blah..." syntax normally produced for the benefit of 
SQL*Plus command scripts.

DESCRIPTION

Designed for Oracle DBA's and users, for Oracle versions 7.3, 8.0 and 8i.  
Reverse engineers database objects (tables, indexes, users, profiles, 
tablespaces, roles, constraints, etc.).  Generates DDL to
*resize* tables and indexes to the provided standard or to a user
defined standard.  Can reorganize/defragment tablespaces.

SYNOPSIS

use DBI;
use DDL::Oracle;

my $dbh = DBI->connect(
                        "dbi:Oracle:dbname",
                        "username",
                        "password",
                        {
                         PrintError => 0,
                         RaiseError => 1
                        }
                      );

# Use default resizing and schema options.
# query default DBA_xxx tables (could use USER_xxx for non-DBA types)
DDL::Oracle->configure(
                        dbh    => $dbh,
                      );

# Create a list of o
ne or more objects
my $sth = $dbh->prepare(
       "SELECT
               owner
             , name
        FROM
               dba_tables
        WHERE
               tablespace_name = 'MY_TBLSP'    -- your millage may vary
       "
    );
$sth->execute;
my $list = $sth->fetchall_arrayref;

my $obj = DDL::Oracle->new(
                            type  => "table",
                            list  => $list,                          );
                          );

my $ddl = $obj->create;      # or $obj->resize;  or $obj->drop;  etc.

print $ddl;    # Use STDOUT so user can redirect to desired file.

AUTHOR

Richard V. Sutherland
rvsutherland@yahoo.com

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2000, 2001 Richard V. Sutherland.  All rights reserved. This 
module is free software.  It may be used, redistributed, and/or modified under 
the same terms as Perl itself.  See:

    http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

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                       AVAILABILITY
===========================================================================

DDL::Oracle is available from the CPAN, and from:

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/ddl-oracle/

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