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Hello. We have Peoplesoft's payroll package. We would like to drop the 1400 empty application ("ps_.....) tables in it that support aspects of the application which we do not own. We get no encouragement from Peoplesoft on this issue. Does anyone out there have any experience / insight...

Mike,<br> <br> Thanks a lot. That does help. -- John Weil

Hello. I just found out why I haven't gotten any response to my post to Oracle's (not tek-tips') client relations forum in meta-link. My boss, after 30 minutes on hold, was told by a client relations person that their meta-link forum is experiencing 16 day turnaround. If you need software...

Hi. Can anyone give me a quick definition of what is meant by &quot;relinking&quot; during the installation of an Oracle patch set? Is it relevant in both NT and Unix? Thanks.<br> <br> -- dba

Mike,<br> <br> Thanks again. Hopefully there will be a migration tool to buy when the need gets bigger. -- John

wfj and Kyle,<br> Are you talking about importing into UDB or the mainframe? <br> <br> -- John Weil<br>

Mike and carp;<br> <br> Thanks for your replies. When you speak of a test or production schema, are you using one schema for all test tables, and one for all production tables? We did that on the mainframe and it worked well, but I'm not sure I want to deal with such long lists of objects with...

I need some advice. Using the same schema names for test, acceptance and production would probably ease migration chores, at the risk of disaster if you slip up and do something in production when you meant to be signed onto test. <br> <br> However, using different schema names means changing...

You might want to give the folks at DataJunction a call. They have a (pretty cheap) product that does a lot of transformations. -- dba<br>