15-Sep-2020
A project I've recently started working on is moving away from a legacy Oracle 9i database and I'm helping with the data migration to a new system. That means that I still have to go and poke around the 9i system from time to time. My usual experience has been with Oracle 10g and up so I was surprised when I tried to run 'desc table_name' to get the following error...
Luckily the data dictionary still exists and it is still possible to get a description of your table using a standard SQL statement. The following SQL will do the trick... (replace
'table_name' with the actual name of your table).
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