Oracle-L: RE: SQL query

From: Richard Huntley <rhuntley_at_mindleaders.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 06:28:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00497DBA.20020715062826@fatcity.com>

You can use USER,ALL or DBA view to find the constraints...

--table constraints

select constraint_name, constraint_type
from user_constraints
where table_name = '&table_name'
/

--table column constraints

select column_name,position
from user_cons_columns
where table_name = '&table_name'
and constraint_name = '&constraint_name' /

-----Original Message-----

Sent: Saturday, July 13, 2002 2:53 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

I am using an Oracle database running in Linux. I would like to view the description of a table. For ex., if there is a table called 'person'. I would like to see the names of the columns in this table, their datatypes and such other details. In other dbmss like mysql a command 'describe <tablename>' gives the information. What is the equivalent in Oracle?

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