Someone has shown me the way, so nevermind. One pain in my butt eliminated!
At 12:13 PM 7/3/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I know this is way off topic, but I don't want to join an Oracle list just
>to find out this one thing. Thanks for indulging me.
>
>I have an existing database that I am "investigating" and I'm having a bit
>of trouble getting information on the indexes. I have retrieved all the
>information that I need except the fieldnames used in the index. I have
>been pulling information from the all_indexes table, but I can't find a
>field with the fieldnames. I also can't retrieve a description of any
>indexes. When I type descr and paste the name of an existing index (copied
>from all_indexes) I get an "object does not exist" message. I've tried with
>several index names copied from the all_indexes table. It works with all
>other objects, so I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I'm not used to using
>indexes, nor am I terribly familiar with Oracle, so I may just be confused
>about the way they work. I don't know where else to look, so if anyone
>knows how to retrieve this information, please contact me off list. Thanks!
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