What's DBMS_METADATA_UTIL?
I've written a package that calls DBMS_METADATA (10g) to produce the DDL
to recreate an entire schema, and it works great. I can't find any
reference in the docs to DBMS_METADATA_UTIL.
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*From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:
oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Jared Still
*Sent:* Wednesday, June 13, 2007 12:42 PM
*To:* ddavey@xxxxxxxxxx
*Cc:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
*Subject:* Re: Sql Developer
On 6/13/07, Davey, Alan <ddavey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> My biggest problem with SQL Developer compared to Toad is that the sql
> formatter when used on pl/sql code sucks.
>
The folks mostly responsible for SQL-Developer are Kris Rice and Sue
Harper.
Blogs:
http://krisrice.blogspot.com/
http://sueharper.blogspot.com/
They are well aware of problems with dbms_metadata_util.
They also have no power to fix it.
Seems rather strange that a package that is so potentially useful
has such a fatal flaw, and one that should be easily fixed.
For the un-initiated, DDL output from dbms_metadata_util always
needs to be reformatted before being used, making it rather useless
for anything large scale.
There are alternatives.
Taking an export of a schema and stripping out the SQL is do-able.
I've done so with Perl, though awk/sed/grep could do it as well.
Even better, if you use Perl, DDL::Oracle will pull DDL from the database,
and it doesn't require reformatting.
--
Jared Still
Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
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