Actually, USER_TAB_COLUMNS view contains information for table AND views.
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> Does anyone know how to get at the meta-data information for an Oracle
> view in a form similar to that returned by DESCRIBE ?
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> I don't want the SQL text -- rather, I'd like to have some data
> dictionary stuff to be able to look at (e.g. like USER_TAB_COLUMNS etc.
> but for views). Is there a PL/SQL routine I can call? Anything new in
> Oracle 8i for this?
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> Basically, I have a program that crunches USER_TAB_COLUMNS but I need to
> modify it to handle views.
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> How the heck does Oracle SQL*Plus do it?
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> Thanks in advance!
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Received on Wed Apr 05 2000 - 17:40:16 CDT
