Re: Equivalent to Oracle's describe
I think the dbschema command could do the job.
-----Original Message-----
From: James Cooper <pixel@organic.com>
To: informix-list@iiug.org <informix-list@iiug.org>
Date: Martes 17 de Marzo de 1998 07:43
Subject: Equivalent to Oracle's describe
>Hi,
>
>I'm new to the Informix world, and miss the "describe" command in Oracle
>that
>displays the column names and datatypes for a given table or view.
>
>I realize that if I run dbaccess in its menu driven mode that I can get
>this
>information, but for whatever reason I'm just not that into the fancy ASCII
>menus.
>
>Also, can anyone recommend a good reference for the Informix system
>catalog?
>I imagine I could answer my first question above if I knew which catalog
>tables
>to look in.
>
>thanks
>
>-- James
>