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What does "Standard" mean in the datatype column of describe

if you Describe dbms_transform PROCEDURE COMPUTE_TRANSFORMATION Argument Name Type In/Out ------------------------------ ----------------------- ------ MESSAGE STANDARD IN TRANSFORMATION_SCHEMA VARCHAR2 IN TRANSFORMATION_NAME ...

How to get column info from oracle table you don't own (without using describe)?

Hi, How would one get columns information on table which he doesn't own, but has select granted? This is, without using DESCRIBE table_name. Consider this example: // user bob owns table STUDENTS grant select on students to josh; // now josh logs in, normally he would do describe bob.students; // but he's looking for something along ...

Describing PHP functions efficiently

How can you describe the parameters and return type (getter/setter) of your PHP functions? I need to tell my moderator the return type and list the parameters for each function. I have hundreds of functions so this is becoming problem, since I need to do this for every single revision. I use at the moment the following procedure ack-...

using union in a construct sparql query

hello, i have such a sparql query: select ?s ?p ?o from <http://localhost:8890/DAV/ranking&gt; where { {<http://seekda.com/providers/cdyne.com/PhoneNotify&gt; so:hasEndpoint ?s. ?s ?p ?o} union {<http://seekda.com/providers/cdyne.com/PhoneNotify&gt; ?p ?o} } but i need a graph query (construct ord describe). unfortunatly i have no...

What is the cleanest way to sort "describe table" query results ?

Hello everyone, I'm working on "describe table" output to show a list of fields and their types, i want my primary keys to be at top of the list.. I think there's no way to sort describe's results using SQL (something like 'order by') rather than sorting it in PHP. what do you think guys ? thanks ...

Table names, and loop to describe

Working in Oracle 10g. Easy way to list all tables names (select table_name from dba_tables where owner = 'me') But now that I have the table names, is there an easy way to loop through them and do a 'describe' on each one in sequence? ...