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ramon_at_conexus.net (Ramon F Herrera) wrote in message news:<c9bc36ff.0411282342.e6a8b6a_at_posting.google.com>...
> 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?
>
Perhaps you should... coupled with a select from user_tab_columns. DESC[RIBE] is a SQL*Plus command.
Regards
/Rauf
Received on Mon Nov 29 2004 - 05:35:52 CST