Jacqui,

you express exactly what my thoughts are, thanks!

On 17 Jul 2004, at 18:03, Jacqui Caren wrote:

> Geert Bevin wrote:
>> I'm very interested to know where you found million and one
>> discussions, and if they are there maybe they indicate a real demand.
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> I found around 20 or so mentions relating to 'dynamic' DDL
> and connections. All resulted in a "dont do it" response
> which I think we can all agreed is little more than
> useless as a response.
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> I am one of the silent minority that plan and intend to
> dynamically create tables *and* triggers.
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> This is driven by the need to store and merge large
> data sets. The meta data is held in "static" tables
> with dynamic tables and triggers/SP created to
> simplify merges, access, validation etc.
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> The need to re-establish connections is for me a
> real pain in the xxxx. Telling me to "dont do that"
> is in effect telling me to go buy Oracle or SS2K
> which are the only other ACID databases that offer this
> functionality (within limits).
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