You may also use the table all_constraints because dba_* views can be queried only by users with "admin" rights. If the view which primary key you want to get is in the same schema, then the table "user_constraints" will also do it.

Regards,
Vlad


>Hi Richard,
>
>you may use following query to get the name of the primary key on a table:
>
>SELECT constraint_name
> FROM dba_constraints
> WHERE table_name = 'MY_TABLE'
> AND owner = 'MY_TABLE_OWNER'
> AND constraint_type = 'P';
>
>The table name and the table owner name must be written in uppercase.
>In Oracle there is no stored procedure to get this kind of info. You will have to query the views of the Oracle data dictionary.
>
>Hope this helps,
>Vlad
>
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Using SQL passthrough I need to return the primary key of an Oracle table. Against Microsoft SQL Server I can call the stored procedure or directly query the syscolumns and sysobjects tables.
>>
>>Are there equivalents in Oracle ?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Richard