Quoting Joel Burton (jburton@scw.org):
> I like our way much better -- once you've learned a bit about the system
> tables, you can use them in any query, etc. However, many new users do try
> DESCRIBE, etc.
Well, I worked for Oracle for 6 months and got quite adept at querying the
system tables. But that was a while ago, and I forget it all.
--
Paul Tomblin <ptomblin@xcski.com>, not speaking for anybody
"low ping bastard: n. anybody getting more frags than the person running their
client on the server." - Steve Caskey
