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I am writing a program whose purpose is to create .dat
files which are going to be used later by SQL*Loader.
I would like my program to find out in real time whether any of the fields that are going to be inserted in the table are too wide.
Therefore, I would like to have my OCI program connect to the database an perform some sort of "DESC tablename" command or equivalent. Perhaps I should perform a SELECT FROM USER_TABLES? TIA, -Ramon F Herrera Received on Mon Nov 29 2004 - 01:42:48 CST