TO "get around" the 8.x->7.x database link I wrote:
/*
produces output similar to the 'desc' command over a db_link
takes two parameters
1. the table to be described
2. the name of the db_link (with @ sign)
*/
-- t. day 9-25-01
set verify off
select column_name, data_type, data_length from sys.dba_tab_COLUMNS&&2
where table_name = upper('&&1') order by 1
/
set verify on
You may want to pretty up the output to overcome the 200 character
column_name and gather other information from dba_tab_columns, but it's a
beginning.
Jared.Still
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Sorry Steve, you'll have to live with it.
Oracle has never had any intention of fixing this seemingly simple
yet enormously annoying bug.
Wait til you try to do a describe across a 8.x->7.x database link.
That won't work at all.
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I have recently converted from 7.3.4 to 8i. The conversion went well, but
I
have finally gotten around to dealing with an annoying problem. The
problem
is that since the 8 conversion my sqlplus session returns the output from
describe in a strange manner. The Name column for example is close to 200
characters long. I can control this by setting my sqlplus linesize to
something more pedestrian than the 500 characters I have set in my
login.sql.
The output of the describe command when describing a package is as
expected, regardless of linesize. So in my opinion this is not a feature.
Any chance any of you have run across this in the past? I am hoping a
patch
exists, because 8.1.6 is the final release for my OS platform.
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