Hi!

I have an Oracle database which I have to dumb to an ASCII file of a defined format. For that I need to read the whole database, including table names, column names and descriptions, format the data and write the file.

So, how do I :
- Find out all the table names
- Find out column names in a certain table

I'm programming this with Delphi and I think I'll be able to do rest of the data processing, I just need to extract all the data. Is it possible to do all this using a database user or do I have to log on as system user?

I got the table names and column names queries working in SQL*Plus, but now I need to do this with a database user and from an external program.

Thanks for the help!