Re: [cx-oracle-users] cx_Oracle4.3.1: - describe table query is not working!!!

[Richard M. <ri...@we...>]

Piyush Chechani wrote:
> Hey Richard,
> 
> Thanks a lot man for quotin g that query, 
> But I was asking specifically for that particular query, that 'describe 
> <tabl-name>' runs when we execute this in SQL*Plus, but it doesn't from 
> cx_Oracle interface. Why so.

As I said, describe isn't a real query. I doubt it will work. Describe
is implemented separately from queries (using OCIDescribeAny()), it's
not really part of SQL.

Cheers

Rich.

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