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globalwm
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Was wondering if anyone had a procedure or practice on keeping Synonyms (metadata) in sync with underlying Table objects?

For example, user uploads file to the RDBMS (which creates a Synonym). Table "expires" or is deleted which now "orphans" the metadata.

Any ideas?

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jgelona
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Only way I know is to write a program. Here are the basic steps.

You'll need data from the Oracle system tables. We have a view that is call ALL_TABLES. Create a synonym for that view.

From ALL_TABLES extract the table/view names for the particular database/owner and save in a HOLD file.

Next get a DIR listing of the masters.

Compare the 2 lists and delete the .mas & .acx files where the table is not in the HOLD file


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Wep5622
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We have a system in place that periodically compares the output of SYSTABLE and SYSCOLUM with a table that gets generated on our AS/400 database server. The latter gets fed from a table of table names that we fill depending on what we use, so that we don't get too much changes listed that we're not interested in.

Of course, that's only one of the databases that we have that for, but it is the one where changes are most common because we have a team actively developing on it. Other databases tend to be for 3rd party products and change a lot less, so we haven't bothered with those yet.

The nice bit is that the changes get reported to us by e-mail and we can usually see from the message size that there were no changes.


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globalwm
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Originally posted by jgelona:
Next get a DIR listing of the masters.

Compare the 2 lists and delete the .mas & .acx files where the table is not in the HOLD file



Is there a way to query the WF Masters in the Repository or is this purely a "DIR listing" ?

If so, I could create a DBLINK to compare the Tables/Views in DBA_OBJECTS to the Repository instance.


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Wep5622
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There are several methods, such as:
TABLE FILE SYSTABLE
BY NAME
END


Alternatively, you can use APP LIST and APP QUERY to list the masters (and other file types) by app.


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