Context
Normally I work in SQL Server when I am dealing with relational data but on my current project one of our primary systems uses Oracle as its back end. In order to quickly generate a list of column names for use in an access request, I need to interrogate the table metadata and I cannot recall the way to do this on Oracle.
Search terms
oracle column list query
Helpful link
https://dataedo.com/kb/query/oracle/list-columns-names-in-specific-table
Outcome
I was reminded to use sys.all_tab_columns to get this information.