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Re: Somehow dynamically extract 140+ table columns so I can fill a web page with the column data

From: Galen Boyer <galenboyer_at_hotpop.com>
Date: 22 Jul 2002 22:01:19 -0500
Message-ID: <ur8hvrn7z.fsf@hotpop.com>


On 22 Jul 2002, DelawareDH_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> I have a table that contains more than 140 columns. I need to display
> the column names and their respective values given some criteria in a
> web page table via PLSQL. Is there a straight forward way to
> reference the column values? I can pretty easily get the column names
> via DBMS_SQL. The difficult part is extracting the data. The columns
> are of various types and lengths so I cannot generically define a
> PLSQL table.

You could use XSQL. The page could execute a "select *" (Hm... do the good design rules apply with XSQL?) returning XML. Then, the XSQL page could reference an XSL page which could transform it to whatever html page format you want.

-- 
Galen deForest Boyer
Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground.
Received on Mon Jul 22 2002 - 22:01:19 CDT

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