Get data type of field in select statement in ORACLE

Question

Can I get data types of each column I selected instead of the values, using a select statement?

FOR EXAMPLE:

SELECT a.name, a.surname, b.ordernum 
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Answer 1

If you don't have privileges to create a view in Oracle, a "hack" around it to use MS Access :-(

In MS Access, create a pass through query with your sql (but add where clause to just select 1 record), create a select query from the view (very important), selecting all *, then create a make table from the select query. When this runs it will create a table with one record, all the data types should "match" oracle. i.e. Passthrough --> Select --> MakeTable --> Table

I am sure there are other better ways, but if you have limited tools and privileges this will work.