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David C. Barber
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:49 am    Post subject: Getting the schema of a View Reply with quote
Hi,

We have an Oracle 10 (I believe) database, but none of the tools to go with
it yet due to budget constraints. You know how it is with Oracle tools. It
runs a single vendor application comprising over 1400 tables and views. Now
we have to pry open the hood a little bit and get some data out. The vendor
documentation is trash, but I have a View that contains the data I'm
interested in. My problem is to trace back to the original tables that
comprise this View. Can anyone recommend any good Open Source (read: Free)
tools that can help me with this? I only have to do this maybe a few number
of times, which makes it hard to justify investing big bucks otherwise, and
I don't read DDL myself.

Thanks!
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GuessWho
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 7:17 am    Post subject: Re: Getting the schema of a View Reply with quote
"David C. Barber" <david@NOSPAMdbarber.com> wrote in message
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Quote:
Hi,

We have an Oracle 10 (I believe) database, but none of the tools to go
with
it yet due to budget constraints. You know how it is with Oracle tools.

Oracle SQL Developer is free! Downloadable from otn.oracle.com.
R.

Quote:
It
runs a single vendor application comprising over 1400 tables and views.
Now
we have to pry open the hood a little bit and get some data out. The
vendor
documentation is trash, but I have a View that contains the data I'm
interested in. My problem is to trace back to the original tables that
comprise this View. Can anyone recommend any good Open Source (read:
Free)
tools that can help me with this? I only have to do this maybe a few
number
of times, which makes it hard to justify investing big bucks otherwise,
and
I don't read DDL myself.

Thanks!

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gazzag
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Joined: 08 Jun 2005
Posts: 277

PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 11:02 am    Post subject: Re: Getting the schema of a View Reply with quote
David C. Barber wrote:
Quote:
Hi,

We have an Oracle 10 (I believe) database, but none of the tools to go with
it yet due to budget constraints. You know how it is with Oracle tools. It
runs a single vendor application comprising over 1400 tables and views. Now
we have to pry open the hood a little bit and get some data out. The vendor
documentation is trash, but I have a View that contains the data I'm
interested in. My problem is to trace back to the original tables that
comprise this View. Can anyone recommend any good Open Source (read: Free)
tools that can help me with this? I only have to do this maybe a few number
of times, which makes it hard to justify investing big bucks otherwise, and
I don't read DDL myself.

Thanks!

Download Oracle's free SQL Developer tool from here:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/sql/index.html

HTH

-g
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psoug
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Joined: 15 May 2005
Posts: 3492

PostPosted: Fri Jul 07, 2006 5:26 pm    Post subject: Re: Getting the schema of a View Reply with quote
David C. Barber wrote:
Quote:
Hi,

We have an Oracle 10 (I believe) database, but none of the tools to go with
it yet due to budget constraints. You know how it is with Oracle tools. It
runs a single vendor application comprising over 1400 tables and views. Now
we have to pry open the hood a little bit and get some data out. The vendor
documentation is trash, but I have a View that contains the data I'm
interested in. My problem is to trace back to the original tables that
comprise this View. Can anyone recommend any good Open Source (read: Free)
tools that can help me with this? I only have to do this maybe a few number
of times, which makes it hard to justify investing big bucks otherwise, and
I don't read DDL myself.

Thanks!

No tool required. In SQL*Plus type:

SELECT dbms_metadata.get_ddl('VIEW', '<the_name_of_your_view>')
FROM dual;

A full demo can be found in Morgan's Library at www.psoug.org under
DBMS_METADATA.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan@x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
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