Thursday, February 03, 2011

Application Express Views - Key discovery part 2

Yesterday, I showed how the new Foreign Key discovery works on a subset of dba views.  The only catch was that the end result had T_DBA_  prefixes for the names.  It's really easy to change that.

Once you import the views and convert them to tables, delete the views.  What you are left with is a bunch of tables prefixed with T_ .  Now right click on the relational model in the tree and choose Change Object Names Prefix.

This is a simple dialog, much like a search and replace.  Enter the old, the new, and what object types it applies to and everything is back to the base names you'd expect in a diagram.


The end result is a model of all the APEX_ views for 4.0.

Oracle Application Express Views