Excerpts from Josh Berkus's message of mié dic 01 17:13:35 -0300 2010:
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> > Well, porting applications from other database systems that support synonyms
> > (i.e. Oracle, DB2, SQL Server).
>
> SQL Server supports synonyms? If it's not Oracle-only, it's a more
> powerful argument to have the feature.
I think it's worth mentioning that in SQL Server, synonyms are not
schema-qualified; they're "global" objects.
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