RE: Order of columns in a table

From: Nicoll, Iain (Calanais) <iain.nicoll_at_calanais.com>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2001 12:31:26 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.002FFF11.20010510120217@fatcity.com>

Try

1 select table_name, column_name, column_id 2* from user_tab_columns where table_name = 'PRODUCT_PROFILE' SQL> /

TABLE_NAME                     COLUMN_NAME                    COLUMN_ID
------------------------------ ------------------------------ ---------
PRODUCT_PROFILE                PRODUCT                                1
PRODUCT_PROFILE                USERID                                 2
PRODUCT_PROFILE                ATTRIBUTE                              3
PRODUCT_PROFILE                SCOPE                                  4
PRODUCT_PROFILE                NUMERIC_VALUE                          5
PRODUCT_PROFILE                CHAR_VALUE                             6
PRODUCT_PROFILE                DATE_VALUE                             7
PRODUCT_PROFILE                LONG_VALUE                             8

8 rows selected.

SQL> desc product_profile

 Name                            Null?    Type
 ------------------------------- -------- ----
 PRODUCT                         NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
 USERID                                   VARCHAR2(30)
 ATTRIBUTE                                VARCHAR2(240)
 SCOPE                                    VARCHAR2(240)
 NUMERIC_VALUE                            NUMBER(15,2)
 CHAR_VALUE                               VARCHAR2(240)
 DATE_VALUE                               DATE
 LONG_VALUE                               LONG

-----Original Message-----
Sent: 10 May 2001 20:01
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi!

How can I find out what the order of columns in a table is?

If I do a select * from tablename, the columns appear in a specific order. The same order than they appear when I do a describe tablename.

I can even do an insert without specifying the columns in my VALUES (.....,....) when they are in that specific order.

How and where can I find the order of the columns within a table?

Any ideas?

Yhis is 8.1.6 on Win2k.

Thanks,
Helmut

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