Just a quick one this time ... is there a way, after haing described a query, to retrieve a TOracleObject even though the query has not yet been executed?

I need/want this ability in the case where a table with object columns does not have any rows (my code currently fetches the object from the first row and uses it's methods to 'describe' it) ... currently I plan to either interrogate the Oracle Data Dictionary (which I already have code for, but ...), or write a new method for TOracleQuery which makes use of OCI (for performance) to return an object similar to TOracleObject ...