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Pavel Stehule, 16.02.2011 12:20:
>> Unfortunately they are not the same: Oracle does not support
>> INFORMATION_SCHEMA
>>
>
> sorry, I expected so all mature databases support it.

Yes, this is really hard to understand.

I would assume creating the INFORMATION_SCHEMA views based on the existing Oracle views is just a matter of maybe 3-4 days of days work. So it is really not understandable that Oracle does not support this.

But then they probably don't care - after all it's Oracle.

Regards
Thomas