Re: Getting the schema of a View

From: gazzag <gareth_at_jamms.org>
Date: 7 Jul 2006 04:02:54 -0700
Message-ID: <1152270174.470087.234250_at_s53g2000cws.googlegroups.com>


David C. Barber wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have an Oracle 10 (I believe) database, but none of the tools to go with
> it yet due to budget constraints. You know how it is with Oracle tools. It
> runs a single vendor application comprising over 1400 tables and views. Now
> we have to pry open the hood a little bit and get some data out. The vendor
> documentation is trash, but I have a View that contains the data I'm
> interested in. My problem is to trace back to the original tables that
> comprise this View. Can anyone recommend any good Open Source (read: Free)
> tools that can help me with this? I only have to do this maybe a few number
> of times, which makes it hard to justify investing big bucks otherwise, and
> I don't read DDL myself.
>
> Thanks!

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HTH -g Received on Fri Jul 07 2006 - 13:02:54 CEST

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