this is mostly true. I don't think any Oracle DBA will expect ALL_TABLES our DBA_TABLES to be there.
however DESCRIBE and HELP would be the two that come to mind. greg On 20 Jan 2010 02:56, "Greg Sabino Mullane" <g...@turnstep.com> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 > Why would they want more? It's not MySQL, and they know that. > If we give them some very minor ... +1 >> What if some other people will come up with the idea of adding similar >> functionality for thei... Ha! Best laugh I've had all week. The finger training consists of "double click the mouse, navigate the GUI to find your table...". For command line, you have monstrosities such as "select * from ALL_ALL_TABLES" and "select * from TABS" - unless they've implemented some sort of shortcuts since the last time I used Oracle. Which seems very unlikely, as they obviously have no love for sqlplus (Oracle's command line client), which has been stuck technologically in place for decades (hello, readline?) - -- Greg Sabino Mullane g...@turnstep.com PGP Key: 0x14964AC8 201001192155 http://biglumber.com/x/web?pk=2529DF6AB8F79407E94445B4BC9B906714964AC8 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iEYEAREDAAYFAktWcMkACgkQvJuQZxSWSsgAoQCgw/9e+viAs6RyGCeuSze42oqx Ym4An2Q9FSpXYkX1ZC507Y/NwUb3ODmG =fnUL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your su...