Re: describe tables

From: Thomas Kyte <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 14:47:33 GMT
Message-ID: <35cf132b.6548275_at_192.86.155.100>


A copy of this was sent to dw724_at_cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Dennis M. Hancy) (if that email address didn't require changing) On 7 Aug 1998 14:30:59 GMT, you wrote:

>
>When executing a desc command in SQL, is there any way to list out just
>certain fields in a table? In other words, if I just wanted a list of
>the fields that end in '_ID', for instance, how would I do that?
>
>
>Dennis Hancy
>Eaton Corporation
>Cleveland, OH

not with describe, you would have to instead use something like:

SQL> select column_name, data_type, data_length   2 from user_tab_columns
  3 where table_name = 'TESTING'
  4 and column_name like '%\_ID' escape '\';  

Thomas Kyte
tkyte_at_us.oracle.com
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