Re: Error describing remote tables

From: Devinder Pal Singh <devinder.palsingh_at_pharma.novartis.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 14:13:47 -0500
Message-ID: <3687D86B.A4878E84@pharma.novartis.com>

You must be having sqlplus 3.x on one side, you cannot describe an Oracle 8 table with sqlplus 3.x, it is in the documents for sql 8. Dave

Jerry Dy wrote:

> I have two Oracle installations running on two HP-UX hosts, version 8.03
> and 7.2.2.4 with SQL*Net and Net8 properly configured (I think.) I have
> the database links and listeners setup properly and running. Using
> SQL*Plus, I am able to do SQL statements like select, inserts, delete
> and update on remote tables. But I'm unable to perform a 'desc' or
> 'describe' of remote tables. I got an ORA error that the client request
> is not supported by the server. How can I fix the problem?
>
> Any help appreciated. Thanks!
Received on Mon Dec 28 1998 - 13:13:47 CST