Re: Can a do a "DESCRIBE <tablename>" from OCI?

Ramon F Herrera wrote:
> 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

SELECT from user_tab_columns.

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