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popup describe

user6386731Dec 30 2008 — edited Mar 13 2009
Hello forum,
Thanks you so much for all the information shared here and people who take time to answer questions..I am very grateful to the community. I did try to search the forum, but could no find anyone posting the same problem as me.

I am using -
Version 1.5.3 build 5783.
Java(TM) Platform 1.6.0_07
Oracle IDE 1.5.3.57.83

I am having problems with popup describe. It was the same when I was using 1.5.1 as well. This is what happens when I highlight the table name and right click popup describe -
1) A new window opens and most of the column names are displayed in a format like this - SYS_NC00020$
SYS_NC00021$, SYS_NC00022$.
2) Never are all the column names displayed (..if they are displayed in the correct format) - sometimes only keys, sometimes random columns gets selected, if the table has no keys.

I tried looking at the various settings but could not find any for popup describe. Is this something to do with encoding, which was mentioned in one of the thread? If its is, can someone tell me the right encoding I am supposed to use, please ? The traditional "describe" works fine, but I was hoping this GUI based would be more easy to use and much friendlier, not to type the command every time. This feature helps me a lot as a developer...

Please help me...
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