This command is available only for Oracle.
Returns information about primary database fields (columns in tables, or input parameters in stored procedures) from the RASD.
ra_helpfield article [, version [, field]]
The name or object ID of an article (table or procedure) in the primary database. Article names can be qualified with an owner name in the following form:
owner.article
Owner qualification of article names is optional.
A hexadecimal locator value that identifies the version of the specified article.
The name or object ID of a field (column or input parameter) in the specified article.
ra_helpfield authors
This command returns information about all fields in the current version of the article named authors in the RASD.
ra_helpfield authors, 00000000000210a400003334000700003334000699940000d413c50000000000
This command returns information about all fields in version 00000000000210a400003334000700003334000699940000d413c50000000000 of the article named “authors” in the RASD.
ra_helpfield authors, 00000000000210a400003334000700003334000699940000d413c50000000000, au_fname
This command returns information about the field named au_fname in version 00000000000210a400003334000700003334000699940000d413c50000000000 of the article named “authors” in the RASD.
The ra_helpfield command returns the following information for fields:
Field (column or input parameter) object ID
Field name
Field type ID
Field datatype (with precision, length, and scale)
Field NULL mode
Field IDENTITY status
Field primary key status
All field information items are the values returned by the primary database when the Sybase Replication Agent is initialized with the pdb_xlog init command.
If ra_helpfield is invoked with the article option, it returns information for all fields in the current version of the specified article in the RASD.
If ra_helpfield is invoked with the article and version options, it returns information for all fields in the specified version of the specified article in the RASD.
If ra_helpfield is invoked with the article, version, and field options, it returns information for the specified field in the specified version of the specified article in the RASD.
The ra_helpfield command is valid when the Sybase Replication Agent is in either Admin or Replicating state.
No results are returned by this command if the RASD has not yet been initialized with the pdb_xlog init command.
ra_config, ra_help, ra_helparticle, ra_helpdb, ra_helpdevice, ra_helplocator, ra_helpuser
