REPOST: database link can select but not describe

From: Simon Cunningham <cs40_at_gre.ac.uk>
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 14:34:51 +0000
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I have users here that have created dblinks that work fine but...you can select from it but you cant describe a table.

SIMO>select * from time_at_duma
  2 ;

TIME

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07:23 PM

SIMO>desc time_at_duma
ERROR:
ORA-02019: connection description for remote database not found

Am I missing something???

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