I spoke with Oracle Support about this. They said it was an inherant
problem with the way "Describe" is implemented in 8.0 to deal with Objects.
satar_at_my-dejanews.com wrote in message <75mbeo$n6j$1_at_nnrp1.dejanews.com>...
>There's no way to fix this. I believe it is resolved in 8.0.5, but not
sure.
>Funny how they let this one "slip" past Quality control.
>
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>In article <367B6011.7AB3812B_at_netlane.com>,
> Jerry Dy <jdy_at_netlane.com> wrote:
>> I have two Oracle installations running on two HP-UX hosts, version 8.03
>> and 7.2.2.4 with SQL*Net and Net8 properly configured (I think.) I have
>> the database links and listeners setup properly and running. Using
>> SQL*Plus, I am able to do SQL statements like select, inserts, delete
>> and update on remote tables. But I'm unable to perform a 'desc' or
>> 'describe' of remote tables. I got an ORA error that the client request
>> is not supported by the server. How can I fix the problem?
>>
>> Any help appreciated. Thanks!
>>
>>
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Received on Tue Dec 22 1998 - 16:14:10 CST
