From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon Mar 28 15:47:55 2005 Return-Path: Received: from air891.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2SLltxw032480 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:47:55 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air891.startdedicated.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j2SLlsem032476 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:47:54 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 0189789738; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:46:01 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing.freelists.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (turing [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 29639-05; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:46:00 -0500 (EST) Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 55CCD8976A; Mon, 28 Mar 2005 15:46:00 -0500 (EST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=tU8KCszEgZOnf2HlUwrpOgaZ0DiuxiWkjqu64LuC8e3IK3yfMU62out0qCqkBY/CR3jA1FcpnfOGis9TEyEncW7rP6p3tIXzfpFQsDtlaW6aA5/oCq9m7BJz3zObCsrK9/Bd4i2ZqBpayXuYF5upHlpla3zKkR3T2ZgWFwaaSMU= Message-ID: Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 21:44:13 +0100 From: David Sharples To: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: Re: DESCRIBE? In-Reply-To: <5E927FAE154F7A4FB83E49E1139F137F06AAE8FD@ussccem04.hds.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit References: <5E927FAE154F7A4FB83E49E1139F137F06AAE8FD@ussccem04.hds.com> X-archive-position: 17745 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: davidsharples@gmail.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: davidsharples@gmail.com X-list: oracle-l X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p9 (Debian) at avenirtech.net X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.60 (1.212-2003-09-23-exp) on air891.startdedicated.com X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL autolearn=ham version=2.60 X-Spam-Level: but that is a table you are describing - not a database On Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:41:02 -0800, Graeme St. Clair wrote: > And it turns out that what I really wanted was:- > > Select * from user_tab_columns where table_name = 'my_data_base' > > Rgds, GStC. > -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l