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Re^2: How to get a db table metadata

by dbwiz (Curate)
on Jun 09, 2005 at 15:14 UTC ( [id://465273]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

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in reply to Re: How to get a db table metadata
in thread How to get a db table metadata

Please have a look at 'Describe table' doesn't work (Oracle/dbiproxy) (especially perrin's answer).

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Re^3: How to get a db table metadata
by mifflin (Curate) on Jun 09, 2005 at 16:11 UTC
    I wasn't telling him to use describe. I was telling him about a view that he can do a select on (through dbi) to get all the columns (and their types & lengths) for a table.
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