Re: Is SQL*Plus a must...*really*?

In article <1994May25.000055.1590_at_iglou.com>, proberts_at_iglou.iglou.com (Phil Roberts) writes:
|>shatzman_at_netcom.com (bs) writes:
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|>>jl34778_at_corp02.d51.lilly.com wrote:
 

|>>: You can run DESCRIBE from SQL*DBA.
 

|>>Really? I can't in V6 (ORA-900: Invalid SQL Statement). I don't
|>>remember if i've tried in ORACLE7. Has this been added or am i missing
|>>something?
|>
|>I tried it today in 6.0.36 and got an Invalid SQL Statement error. So
|>is it possible in V7?
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|> Phil Roberts | proberts_at_iglou.com |
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I don't know the begin of the history but I thought that DESCRIBE was an SQL*PLUS command ?

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