John Dunn wrote: > Apologies I meant to say select * from mytable > > -----Original Message----- > *From:* David Sharples [mailto:davidsharples@xxxxxxxxx] > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 17, 2006 5:26 PM > *To:* jdunn@xxxxxxxxx > *Cc:* oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > *Subject:* Re: sqlplus question > > no, beucase count(*) is just a simple count - you woul dbe asking > the database to give you something different. > > You must code that if you want it with a group by > > > On 17/10/06, *John Dunn* <jdunn@xxxxxxxxx > <mailto:jdunn@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Is there a quick way to configure sqlplus so that when I do > select(*) from mytable I get one line for each column > name/value pair? > well, somewhere on askTom there is a code for procedure print_table I have not right address, but.... procedure print_table( p_query in varchar2 ) AUTHID CURRENT_USER is l_theCursor integer default dbms_sql.open_cursor; l_columnValue varchar2(4000); l_status integer; l_descTbl dbms_sql.desc_tab; l_colCnt number; begin execute immediate 'alter session set nls_date_format=''dd-mon-yyyy hh24:mi:ss'' '; dbms_sql.parse( l_theCursor, p_query, dbms_sql.native ); dbms_sql.describe_columns ( l_theCursor, l_colCnt, l_descTbl ); for i in 1 .. l_colCnt loop dbms_sql.define_column (l_theCursor, i, l_columnValue, 4000); end loop; l_status := dbms_sql.execute(l_theCursor); while ( dbms_sql.fetch_rows(l_theCursor) > 0 ) loop for i in 1 .. l_colCnt loop dbms_sql.column_value ( l_theCursor, i, l_columnValue ); dbms_output.put_line ( rpad( l_descTbl(i).col_name, 30 ) || ': ' || l_columnValue ); end loop; dbms_output.put_line( '-----------------' ); end loop; execute immediate 'alter session set nls_date_format=''dd-MON-rr'' '; exception when others then execute immediate 'alter session set nls_date_format=''dd-MON-rr'' '; raise; end; -- --------------------------------------- Remigiusz Sokolowski <rems@xxxxxxxx> WP/PTI/DIP/ZAB (+04858) 52 15 770 MySQL v. 4.x Oracle v. 10.x --------------------------------------- -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l