Re: [ic] Using existing Oracle database tables

[Neeti singh <looking4neeti@yahoo.com>]

Kyle
 Thanks a lot.I will try out ur suggestion.

Neeti

--- Kyle Cook <kyle@invisio.com> wrote:
> At 09:49 PM 6/19/01, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >   I am unable to figure out how to configure  IC
> to
> >use existing Oracle database tables ,instead of
> >letting IC create its own tables from the txt
> >files.Can anyone help me out please
> >   Thanks
> >    Neeti
> 
> 
> Neeti,
> 
> I'm using MySQL with IC, and set up 20+ tables
> in one catalog to handle many "extras" like
> extended specs data which has 12 tables
> from an outside data source.
> .
> 
> ALL tables were designed and set up manually.
> 
> In the case of needing to use IC tags to "get" the
> data from the tables (as well as tables like
> products
> which IC uses for price,descrip etc. internally)
> I simply inserted the appropriate file (XXX.mysql)
> into
> dbconf directory AND saved an empty XXX.sql file
> in the products directory. Then when IC starts, it
> reads the definitions from XXX.mysql and since
> XXX.sql exists, it does not attempt to "create"
> the table, but instead uses the existing one.
> 
> Note (at least my version 4.7.?) I can still access
> tables that were not given a *.sql or *.mysql file
> via the query tag. I can select,update,insert etc,
> but CAN NOT (understandably) use IC tags like
> [data ......] to read the table because IC
> "doesn't know" it exists, about half the tables
> are set up this way because of the way they are
> used (why bother IC with their definitions if it
> will only ever interact via the query tag?)
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
> Kyle Cook (KC)
> 
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