Way to programmatically drop-and-create-tables?

Hi all,
I have a persistence unit which exists to provide lookup information to my application. It is populated by data that is available at runtime. It takes a long time to parse this data, and therefore my intention is to only parse it once at the deployment target. To do this, I have created a main method that does all the parsing, and I do not set the toplink.ddl-generation property in persistence.xml. This causes the application to fail if the database is not created.
However, this means that during the population stage, I must drop and create any existing tables. I had thought it would be possible to do this by obtaining an EntityManagerFactory which has a property map sent to it, containing the property toplink.ddl-generation set to drop-and-create-tables. But this does not work... the tables are not dropped (if they exist) and are not created (if the database is empty).
Is it possible to do the drop-and-create-tables programmatically using the JPA?
I may have another EntityManagerFactory open at the same time, which has been opened with the default options... would this be conflicting?

I don't think there is any easy way to generate the default tables once your have created the EntityManagerFactory. You could use the EclipseLink/TopLink schemaframework or TableCreator to create tables using a EclipseLink/TopLink DatabaseSession.
There is a DefaultTableGenerator in org.eclipse.persistence.tools.schemaframework, which may give you what you are looking for.
-- James : http://www.eclipselink.org

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DIV,
ACCT_TYPE)
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ACCT_TYPE
from
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Or with a drop:
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ERROR:
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2    cnt      int := 0;
3 begin
4    select max (1)
5      into cnt
6      from user_tables
7     where table_name = 'EMP2';
8
9    if cnt = 1
10    then
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13
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16 /
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Hi all
When creating tables using Transact-SQL scripts, I have always preferred to drop the table if it exists and then create it explicitly using CREATE TABLE. For two reasons:
1) It does not matter if it is the first time the SP is run ie. if I create the table manually in the first instance and just use TRUNCATE TABLE it could fail if the table is deleted
2) I have control over the data types of the table fields
Just recently though I discovered the error that can occur when dropping and creating a table in the same batch (see link below)
Microsoft Website
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Thanks Ronen
Please see my second post immediately before your reply.
Given that I need to store the data output in a physical table for use in QlikView, would you suggest truncating the table each time the SP runs? And then having a script that handles both dropping and creating the physical table, and also creating
the SP?
>> QlikView
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>> for use in QlikView
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>> would you suggest truncating the table each time the SP runs
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most of them, but time in this scenario might be critical.
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dropping and creating the physical table and who
creating the SP?
Are you meaning that the application create the tables and SP?
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Expdp fail and create table SYS_EXPORT_SCHEMA_20

Hi Gurus
I am using Oracle 10.2.0.3 in AIX env
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user13134974 wrote:
Hi Gurus
I am using Oracle 10.2.0.3 in AIX env
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TSQL - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188388.aspx
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1. how do I figure out what is the current default tablespace
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l1.DATUM_UCITAVANJA = to_date('24.11.2008','dd.mm.yyyy') and
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from
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where
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HR_SP_PLAN.D_UNOS u1, HR_SP_PLAN.D_TRADING_TIP t1,
HR_SP_PLAN.L_13_IT_1_PROMET_I_BM_OSTALO p1, HR_SP_PLAN.D_IZVOR i1
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l1.ELIST = l2.ITEMIID and
l2.ITEMNAME = u1.UNOS_NAZIV and u1.USER_KLJUC = 13 and l2.DATUM_UCITAVANJA = to_date('24.11.2008','dd.mm.yyyy') and
l1.DIMENSION_1_PROMET = p1.ITEMIID and
p1.ITEMNAME = i1.IZVOR_NAZIV and i1.USER_KLJUC = 13 and p1.DATUM_UCITAVANJA = to_date('24.11.2008','dd.mm.yyyy') and
nvl(l1.DIMENSION_4_MJESEC , -99) = m1.ITEMIID and
l1.DIMENSION_2_TIPOVI = l3.ITEMIID and
l3.ITEMNAME = t1.TRADING_TIP_NAZIV and l3.DATUM_UCITAVANJA = to_date('24.11.2008','dd.mm.yyyy') and
l1.DATUM_UCITAVANJA = to_date('24.11.2008','dd.mm.yyyy') and
'PROC' = 'PROC';

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How to create one procedure which can drop and create materialized view

Hi,
I want to create one pl/sql procedure which can first drop materialized view CATEGORY_PK and after that create same materialized view CATEGORY_PK.
programme is as follows:
DROP MATERIALIZED VIEW CATEGORY_PK;
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW CATEGORY_PK REFRESH FORCE WITH PRIMARY KEY AS
SELECT cav1.ownerid AS categoryid, p.uuid AS productid ,p.domainID AS productdomainid,pav.stringvalue AS NAME
     ,pav2.stringvalue AS ID, pav3.stringvalue AS SHORT
FROM product p, product_av pav, catalogcategory_av cav1, catalogcategory_av cav2,product_av pav2,product_av pav3
WHERE
cav1.NAME = 'PRODUCT_BINDING_ATTRIBUTE' AND
cav2.NAME = 'PRODUCT_BINDING_VALUE' AND
cav1.ownerid = cav2.ownerid AND
p.uuid = pav.ownerid AND
          p.uuid = pav2.ownerid AND
          p.uuid = pav3.ownerid AND
pav.NAME = cav1.stringvalue AND
          pav2.NAME = cav1.stringvalue AND
          pav2.NAME = cav1.stringvalue AND
pav.stringvalue = cav2.stringvalue AND
          pav2.stringvalue = cav2.stringvalue AND
          pav3.stringvalue = cav2.stringvalue
UNION
SELECT catalogcategoryid AS categoryid, productid, repdomainid AS productdomainid,pav1.stringvalue AS NAME
     ,pav2.stringvalue AS ID, pav3.stringvalue AS SHORT
FROM productcategoryassignment ,product_av pav1,product_av pav2,product_av pav3
     WHERE pav1.ownerid=productid
     AND pav2.ownerid=productid
     AND pav3.ownerid=productid
     AND pav1.NAME='name'
     AND pav2.NAME='productID'
     AND pav3.NAME='shortDescription';

user498566 wrote:
I want to create one pl/sql procedure which can first drop materialized view CATEGORY_PK and after that create same materialized view CATEGORY_PK.That sounds like a waste of time and resources. What do you hope to achieve by this? A refresh? If so, a simple refresh of the old materialized view will do.
If you truly want to continue this road, you'll have to use the EXECUTE IMMEDIATE command to execute DDL commands from within PL/SQL.
Regards,
Rob.

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