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  3. September 2016

Re: IS there a way to display a table definition from the STRSQL command line

Darryl,

- there is no standard SQL way to do so (and if it was, not all SQL dialects wuld follow this!)
- retrieving the table definition would not be of great value: mostly you should end up with create view xxx as select * from ...
- most databases would have some stored procedure to generate DDL for database objects, but this won't help for STRSQL accessing remote databases via ArdGate, because these procedures return one or multiple ResultSets and this i not yet implemented.
- if you simply want to know the column information for a given Table/view you could use:
select * from information_schema.columns where table_name = 'MYTABLE'

- more convinient could be to install JDBC based SQuirreL (it's open source) it shows you all information in it's objects View and could generate DDL as well, hiding all dialecdt specifica.

D*B

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