DESCRIBE the entire database

From: <sysdev_at_adpsystems.mb.ca>
Date: 1998/08/24
Message-ID: <6rs5fu$4ut$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1

Hello,

When I studied databases in university,
we used Sybase. There was a command in Sybase that would describe the entire database; show all the tables, their field structure, primary keys, foreign keys, and so on.

Questions:

What is this command in Sybase?

Is there an equivilent command in Oracle? With Oracle's DESCRIBE,
I can only describe tables and views.

Regards,

Rodger

P.S. -
My ISP is really bad with newsgroups.
They post late, and delete early. Emails to: sysdev_at_adpsystems.mb.ca
are greatly appreciated.

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