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Hi Mahesh, You are getting this error because you must be using it in a SQL statement. 'desc' is not a SQL command, it is a SQL*Plus command. So if you connect to SQL*Plus, you can issue 'desc tablename'
Assuming your data is text only, try the following steps: Reverse engineer physical model in a modeling tool (like ERStudio). Make sure to choose the right platform, bring in all indexes, code etc
Yes, you can definitely compare two different databases, the technique will be different depending on what you are looking for. If you want to compare data, you can use any database query tool (look
Hi Chaishekar, Here's an example of the syntax that invoke three SQL*Loader direct path load sessions on the same table, you would execute each of the following commands at the operating system prompt
Hi Ashwath, To load the CSV file you can use the SQL*Loader utility. All the errors related to table constraints (primary, foreign, check etc) will be validated during loading, the log of which will

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