desc command does not work

hi !

the select command works but if I try the desc command on the same object it does not work.

Does any body know the reason why?

Thank you in advance,

chris

Do you own the object you are trying to run desc on?

Yes!

In which utility are you using the desc command. This command is specific of SQL*Plus.

Regards

Angel

I´m using "golden view" but I think that is not the problem... because it is working on the other data bases...

Is there a special role allowing to read such information?

chis

what is that golden view . is it a tool. where can i get more details about that. is there any download available for that.
pls inform.

regards

swaminathan

you can download a 30 days trial version here:

http://www.benthicsoftware.com/downloads.html

chris

What version of Oracle are you running (and which platform). We recently hit a simialr problem on 8.1.7 on AIX - it turned out to be a bug. Do you get an Oracle error no?

Are you trying to describe a table across a database link? There have been problems with this as well.

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Originally posted by fraze
What version of Oracle are you running (and which platform). We recently hit a simialr problem on 8.1.7 on AIX - it turned out to be a bug. Do you get an Oracle error no?

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I use Oracle 8.1.7 - so it is a bug?

The error is "table or view does not exist".