Re: How to get the ddl of a table in forms?

Hans, If you want that I can get benefit form your query then please re send it completely.

Thanks

John

HansF wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 02:17:34 -0800, mentor1936 wrote:
>
> >
> > I appreciated the way you forward your information to me.
> > But we would rather go with the SQL/data dictionary views that will
> > also be worked with previous versions like 8i.
> > Instead of using DBMS_METADATA is there other technique available for
> > getting the ddl of any table in a schema.
> >
> > Also how should I populate the ddl of a table on forms screen after
> > pressing the ddl button?
> > Could some one send me a little piece of form's code in order to
> > achieve what I am wanting on form's screen?
> >
>
> Personally I'd look at Oracle's Project Raptor - it has visual capability,
> can display DDL for tables in 9i and beyond, and can connect to 8i - worth
> checking whether it c an display the 8i DDL as well.
>
> However, a LOOOONG time ago (Oracle6 & 7.0), I wrote a SQL statement to
> display DDL. Like DBMS_METADATA, it returned a single string (pref CLOB)
> after building up all the appropriate parts from USER_/ALL_/DBA_TABLES and
> ?_TAB_COLUMNS views. It went along the lines of:
>
> SELECT 'CREATE TABLE '||a.owner_name ||'.' ||
> a.table_name || ' (' || chr(13) ||
> ' ' || b.column_name || b.data_type ||
> decode( b.data_type, 'NUMBER',
> ...
>
> although these days I'd probably get lazy and write it as a stored
> function instead of thinking how to use one SQL statement.
>
>
> --
> Hans Forbrich
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Received on Sun Jan 22 2006 - 11:01:01 CET