Comments on: How to find a column in database

By: madhu

madhu — Thu, 07 May 2009 11:16:05 +0000

hi guru

gr8 this is very useful query.
once we get the tables and colums
how can we choose the join conditions as per the requirement.is there any rule to write the join conditions

thanks,
madhu

By: ABHISHEK

ABHISHEK — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 15:59:34 +0000

select * from all_tab_columns where owner = ‘OWNER’ and column_name like ‘COLUMN_NAME’

By: Anurag

Anurag — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:38:37 +0000

Thnks..for valuable info!!

By: Matt Clingan » Where is the column, you say?

Matt Clingan » Where is the column, you say? — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 21:55:59 +0000

[...] I’m not an oracle guru like Jarva, but supposedly you canÂ do the same in Oracle with this (from here) select * from dba_tab_cols all_tab_cols where table_name like â€˜table%â€™ and column_name like â€˜column%â€™ â€? [...]

By: sri

sri — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:30:25 +0000

Hi i just got a hit of your website from google search , looks got and informative , keep posting the good posts

thanks

Sri

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By: Nilesh

Nilesh — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 16:26:56 +0000

Hello Ryan,
Thanks for the tip. all_tab_cols is the right view to look at.

Thanks
Nilesh

By: RMW

RMW — Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:37:14 +0000

I wrote up a little reply to this entry on my blog with a tiny bit more information about searching for columns in a database: http://ryanmwhaley.com/blog/