I think that title may need some explaining, especially if, like me, you spend your days trying to keep your database free of crud.
CRUD stands for Create Read Update and Delete. A CRUD Matrix contains details of which programs interact with which tables and in what way.
In the context of an application running on Oracle, it’s useful to know which stored program units interact with which tables for a whole host of reasons.
These mainly resolve themselves down to being able to analyse the impact of any structural changes you may want to make to your database such as changing a table definition or adding an index.
Incidentally, being such a useful concept, CRUD inevitably has many synonyms, ranging from the brutally frank ( Create Retrieve Alter Purge) to the positively hallucinogenic ( Add Change Inquire Delete) so I’m sure you can find an acronym suitable for whatever kind of day you happen to be having. Continue reading
