Re: How does "describe" work (difficult)

Martin Drautzburg <drautzburg_at_altavista.net> wrote in message news:<87vgezw1zd.fsf_at_altavista.net>...
> I also ran "strace sqlplus". This showed a socked write and a socked
> read. This is no surprise, all commands basically look like like this
> (not just describe). I believe this is just classic SQL*Net
> communication. I don't know WHAT it writes though.

I don't remember the option for strace in Linux (or whatever OS implementing strace). But in Solaris, truss has options -rall -wall to show the full content of the read / write buffer, equivalent to using a network analyzing tool. This doesn't necessarily mean what you see can be interpreted in plain English. You can compare that with admin level SQL*net tracing to gain some insight.

Yong Huang
yong321_at_yahoo.com Received on Mon Dec 24 2001 - 20:44:09 CST