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TableSpy - The Oracle Table Spy - Version 1.2.1
Copyright (c) 1998-2000 by Dieter Oberkofler.
All Rights Reserved.
http://www.geocities.com/doberkofler
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PURPOSE:
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This utility is designed to assist you in analyzing and a maintain
Oracle tables. The utility currently offers 4 main options:
- Overview of statistical information on tables with printing.
- Generate a fully featured "create table" script for any table.
- Analyze statistics of a single and all selected tables.
- Estimate the needed initial segment size for any table.
The selection of tables can be freely configured in the options
dialog and can select from any owners and table names.


LICENSE:
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Please consult the License.TXT file for licensing information
and on how to register this application.


INSTALLATION:
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Copy the file TabSpy.EXE in the TabSpy distribution to a convenient
directory. Typically, I keep these files in a directory along with other
small Oracle utilities.

NOTE: Some objects will be automatically installed and not removed!

This utility uses several procedural extensions that will be
automatically installed during the first start of the app.
I recommend, to first creating a user with the attached
NewUser.SQL script in order to have the objects created
by this app in its own schema.
The objects that will automatically be installed are:
Tables:		DIETERSTOOLBOX_TEMPTABLE
Views:		DIETERSTOOLBOX_TC_V1
Packages:	DIETERSTOOLBOX_TS, DIETERSTOOLBOX_TG

This utility used the native Oracle OCI (Oracle Call Interface) to
access the Oracle server. No additional drivers are needed to connect
to an Oracle server. OCI itself is the low-level API that allows to use
SQL in an Oracle SQL*Net environment.

This 32-Bit version of TabSpy used OCI Version 8.x. The specific DLL that
contains the OCI implementation is OCIW32.DLL.

Usually OCI is automatically installed during the installation process of
SQL*Net and should be always available.


USAGE:
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After having created a new user with the attached script NewUser.SQL
the application will install all needed objects in the specified schema.
If the user used does not have all the needed right, the installation
will not succeed and the program with abort.
If the objects have been successfully installed the application is
ready to use.
You might now set the owner and table filter in the options dialog
and press the refresh button to retrieve a list of objects.
All the other functions can now be executed by pressing the lest
mouse button and using the appropriate function from the pull-down menu.


VERSION HISTORY:
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Version 1.2.1 - 03-JUN-2000
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A problem in the online registration process
has been corrected. You must use version 2.2.1
or higher in order to register the application
successfully.

Version 1.2.0 - 01-JUN-2000
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The application now supports online registration
and will expire after a 30 day trial period.
The new MS IE5 list controls are now used.
The list should now be more reliable and fix a
few update errors.
The connect menu has been removed in order to
have the same user interface in all my tools.
IN order to connect to a different server you
must restart the application.
It is now possible to analyze all currently
selected objects.

Version 1.1.1 - 09-JUN-1999
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Additional Problem has been discovered and fixed when
running against an Oracle 7 RDBMS.
When now running against an Oracle 7 RDBMS the Analyzed
column in will not be filled correctly. I currently show
a '?' sign. I will try to add this information in a future
revision of TabSpy.

Version 1.1.0 - 05-JUN-1999
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Fixed problems when runnig against an Oracle 7 RDBMS.
The original release was not tested against an Oracle 7 RDBMS
and used certain fields of internal views that are not
available in Version 7.x.x of the Oracle RDBMS.

Version 1.0.0 - 13-MAY-1999
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First released version.
