Murray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2005 6:03 AM
To: Vivekananda M (WT01 - UTILITIES)
Cc: dbi-users@perl.org
Subject: Re: Please Help..Getting an error
DESCribe is a SQLPlus command (which Toad is emulating), not valid SQL.
There are other DBI functions to do the same thing
[Tue Jan 25 04:53:23 2005] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] DBD::Oracle::db
prepare failed: ORA-00900: invalid SQL statement (DBD: error possibly
near <*> indicator at char 1 in '<*>DESC iwdeltracker') at C:\\Program
Files\\Apache Group\\Apache2\\cgi-bin\
I think "DESC" is not an SQL statement.
It is an
DESCribe is a SQLPlus command (which Toad is emulating), not valid SQL.
There are other DBI functions to do the same thing that DESC does. See
table_info and column_info in the DBI docs.
HTH,
Dave
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