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Open cursors

Asked By: ranjith12 | Asked On: Apr 11th, 2009

If you have an open cursor on a table, modify the same table and commit, what would happen?

Answered by: KSPradeep Rayavarapu on: Jan 28th, 2013

changes will save..

Answered by: joshmohit on: Oct 23rd, 2010

To provide read consistency, the same records as per when the cursor was opened will be used till the cursor is closed.

Tracing options available in data warehousing

Asked By: Muthu3180 | Asked On: Jan 20th, 2008

What are the different tracing options available? Can tracing options be set for individual transformations?

Answered by: joshmohit on: Nov 3rd, 2010

I am not sure if this pertains to the datawarehouse in general but we do have concept of audit dimensions. Also, dimensions with effective dating can help tracing the changes.

Answered by: sraghav20 on: Oct 7th, 2010

I guess, this question should be directed towards particular tools... as a concept, data warehousing would be hard pressed to have any logging...

What is the difference between aggregate table and materliazed view?

Asked By: madhu2732 | Asked On: Nov 11th, 2007

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Member Since Oct-2010 | Answered On : Nov 3rd, 2010

Aggregate table is a generic term to represent the summaries built in a warehouse. MAterilaized view is the technical implementation of these aggregate tables. Though, Materialized views come with the database specific properties which might not be covered with the generic definition of aggregate tables.

Answered by: Tom Haughey on: Apr 29th, 2012

 An aggregate table is a table that contains data that is summarized somehow, for example, it contains a summary of Customer by Product by Week. A more granular level of detail would be the transactio...

Answered by: joshmohit on: Nov 3rd, 2010

Aggregate table is a generic term to represent the summaries built in a warehouse. MAterilaized view is the technical implementation of these aggregate tables. Though, Materialized views come with the...

How to use comand "commit"and "rollback" in a transacsion?

Asked By: ing huang | Asked On: Feb 27th, 2006

Answered by: joshmohit on: Oct 25th, 2010

commit;
commit work;
commit work 'comment';

rollback;
rollback work;
rollback to savepoint ;

Answered by: narendra kumar on: Dec 6th, 2006

COMMIT:it is used to make the manipulations ENABLE permanently on the table where as ROLLBACK is used to DISABLE the effect of the queries(which were typed a bit above it) on ...

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