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Re: 'Describe table' doesn't work (Oracle/dbiproxy)

by perrin (Chancellor)
on Jan 17, 2004 at 16:45 UTC ( #322041=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to 'Describe table' doesn't work (Oracle/dbiproxy)

It's because "describe" is not a part of SQL. It is something that Oracle's sqlplus shell implements, not the server. There are other ways to get a list of columns in a table, if that's what you want. Check the DBI docs.
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