Slightly bizzare query strategy

2006-11-07 Thread Michael Fischer
Ok, here's one. Either its impossible, or someone might be able to point me to the light. Given: * A table TABLE_DESC, which is rather like a system table, in that it contains the names and column_names of other tables. * A table MY_TABLE, which contains ordinary data, and has a set of rows in

Re: Slightly bizzare query strategy

2006-11-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 07), Michael Fischer said: Given: * A table TABLE_DESC, which is rather like a system table, in that it contains the names and column_names of other tables. * A table MY_TABLE, which contains ordinary data, and has a set of rows in TABLE_DESC. What I wish to do