Select Query Column name based on Table name - oracle

Question

I have like thousands tables, each of them will have their own unique key(s) columns. I want to select the keys based on the table name in a single query. Its always the second column in the table if it helps.
I want something like
select c_name from t_name
where c_name (is)
(
select column_name as c_name
from Dba_tab_Columns
where table_name = t_name
and column_name like '%name' --->>>(((or column_id =2)))
)
I know the t_name but I need a single query to select column name based on table_name.
So let say if I say select c_name from Animals, it should give me list of all animals and if I say select c_name from Cars, it should give me a list of avilable cars.

Answer 1

You cannot do this in pure SQL, you'll need a table function. Here's a way:
create or replace type tvc as table of varchar2(128);
/
create or replace function return_col (tname user_tables.table_name%type) return tvc pipelined
as
c_statement varchar2(400);
get_data sys_refcursor;
out_d varchar2(128);
begin
for gettnames_and_cols in (select c.column_name
from user_cons_columns c, user_constraints uc
where constraint_type in ('P','U') and uc.table_name=c.table_name and c.table_name=upper(tname)) loop
c_statement:='select '||gettnames_and_cols.column_name||' as output_col from '||tname;
open get_data for c_statement;
while true loop
fetch get_data into out_d;
exit when get_data%notfound;
pipe row(out_d);
end loop;
close get_data;
end loop;
return;
end;
/
Thing is that this just gives the data, with no idea what's the column_name or from which table the data comes. You can modify the PL/SQL code to add this info. Also, this assumes that the data will be returned as VARCHAR2(128), you may need to adapt this to your needs. You use this table function as follows:
select *
from table (return_col('your_table_name'));