Can we see the description of a table.

gokuldass · New User Joined: 18 Mar 2005 Posts: 45 Location: india

can we see the description of a table without using the select query..
is there any command like desc <tablename> just like sql..

priya · Posted: Wed May 04, 2005 7:20 am Post subject:

You can try DCLGEN of DB2I

kanak · Moderator Joined: 12 Mar 2005 Posts: 259 Location: India

command is
describe table <table-name>
correct me if i m wrong

ashutosh719 · New User Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 13

u can also go to bmc option-p;b;7 and try with all available options.
if not bmc..try with CA tools option-p;b;2

gokuldass · New User Joined: 18 Mar 2005 Posts: 45 Location: india

hi all..
what is this bmc option and ca tools can u help me to know that...

asridhar · New User Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Hyderabad

command is
describe table <table-name>

this is only in Oracle , if u want to describe table in Mainframe DB2 use DCLGEN

i413678 · Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 2:23 pm Post subject: DB2

Hi,

I am not sure that whether we have DESC command is there in DB2. If any body worked on that please forgive this sentence.

Normally if we want to see the structure of a table we can get the column details from SYSIBM.SYSCOLUMNS table.

pavan

kalinga · Posted: Wed May 25, 2005 4:15 pm Post subject:

hi,
we can see the table structure by

SELECT * FROM TABLE_NAME
WHERE 1=2

Girishm · New User Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 35 Location: Mysore

Hi all,

The query to see the structure of any table is:
SELECT * FROM SYSIBM.SYSCOLUMNS WHERE TBNAME='TABLE_NAME'

This will return all the columns, datatype, etc...

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GM

vasanthanc · Active User Joined: 01 Apr 2005 Posts: 59

Kalinga,
your query will not give structure of the table.
It will just display the column names