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select *
from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS
order by TABLE_NAME, ORDINAL_POSITION
-- Tony Rogerson, SQL Server MVP http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/tonyrogerson [Ramblings from the field from a SQL consultant] http://sqlserverfaq.com [UK SQL User Community] "Mark D Powell" <Mark.Powell_at_eds.com> wrote in message news:1186953426.039369.194760_at_j4g2000prf.googlegroups.com...Received on Mon Aug 13 2007 - 15:47:43 CDT
> On Aug 12, 2:04 pm, carnahan...._at_gmail.com wrote:
>> I am transitioning to Oracle from SQL Server using a poorly documented
>> application that uses Oracle 9 as its back end.
>>
>> SQL Server has a command that dumps the names of all Fields in all
>> Tables.
>>
>> Is there a similar command I can execute to do the same with Oracle?
>
> [Second attempt after Google posting error reported so if duplicate my
> apologies]
>
> I have ran queries to pull column information from the SQL Server
> dictionary tables but I was unaware of a command (procedure?) to dump
> all columns for all talbes, for future reference what is the command?
>
> -- Mark D Powell --
>