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This chapter contains descriptions of data dictionary tables and views. To see the data dictionary views available to you, query the view DICTIONARY.
See Chapter 3, "Dynamic Performance (V$) Views" for descriptions of the V$ views.
In Trusted Oracle Server, each of the dictionary tables and views contains a column that indicates the label of each row in the table or view. Trusted Oracle also provides some additional dictionary tables and views, and some Oracle dictionary tables and views contain columns that support compatibility with Trusted Oracle applications.
See your Trusted Oracle documentation for more information about Trusted Oracle dictionary tables and views.
The following is an alphabetical reference of the data dictionary views accessible to all users of an Oracle Server. Most views can be accessed by any user with the CREATE_SESSION privilege.
The data dictionary views that begin with DBA_ are restricted. These views can be accessed only by users with the SELECT_ANY_TABLE privilege. This privilege is assigned to the DBA role when the system is initially installed.
This view describes all of the tables (object tables and relational tables) accessible to the user.
This view lists all of the arguments in the object which are accessible to the user.
This view lists user-defined statistics information.
This view lists all tables, views, synonyms, and sequences accessible to the user.
| Column | Datatype | NULL | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
OWNER |
VARCHAR2(30) |
NOT NULL |
Owner of the object |
|
TABLE_NAME |
VARCHAR2(30) |
NOT NULL |
Name of the object |
|
TABLE_TYPE |
VARCHAR2(11) |
|
Type of the object |
This view list all clusters accessible to the user.
This view list hash functions for all accessible clusters.
This view lists comments on columns of accessible tables and views.
This view lists grants on columns for which the user or PUBLIC is the grantee.
This view lists grants on columns for which the user is owner or grantor.
This view lists grants on columns for which the user or PUBLIC is the grantee.
This view displays the named collection types accessible to the user.
This view contains information about accessible columns in constraint definitions.
Note: If you create a constraint on a user-defined REF column, the system creates the constraint on the exploded columns that make up the REF column and hence column names of the constraint will be the column names of the exploded columns. These names will however have as their prefix the REF column's name.
This view lists constraint definitions on accessible tables.
This view lists active context information.
This view lists database links accessible to the user.
This view contains default object-auditing options that will be applied when objects are created.
This view lists dependencies between objects accessible to the user. Dependencies on views created without any database links are also available.
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This view represents dimension objects.
This view represents the relationship between a dimension level and a functionally dependent column. The table that the level columns are in must match the table of the dependent column.
This view represents a 1:n hierarchical relationship between a pair of levels in a dimension.
This view represents a dimension hierarchy.
| Column | Datatype | NULL | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
OWNER |
VARCHAR2(30) |
NOT NULL |
Owner of the dimension |
|
DIMENSION_NAME |
VARCHAR2(30) |
NOT NULL |
Name of the dimension |
|
HIERARCHY_NAME |
VARCHAR2(30) |
|
Hierarchy name |
This view represents a join between two dimension tables. The join is always specified between a parent dimension level column and a child column.
This view represents a dimension level. All columns of a dimension level must come from the same relation.
This view represents a column of a dimension level. The position of a column within a level is specified by KEY_POSITION.
This view contains the description of all directories accessible to the user.
This view lists current errors on all objects accessible to the user.
This view lists columns of the indexes on accessible tables.
Note: If you create an index on a user-defined REF column, the system creates the index on the exploded columns that make up the REF column and hence column names of the index will be the column names of the exploded columns. These names will however have as their prefix the REF column's name.
This view lists functional index expressions on accessible tables.
This view describes, for each index partition, the partition level partitioning information, the storage parameters for the partition, and various partition statistics determined by ANALYZE that the current user can access.
This view describes, for each index subpartition that the current user owns, the partition level partitioning information, the storage parameters for the subpartition, and various partition statistics determined by ANALYZE.
This view contains descriptions of indexes on tables accessible to the user. To gather statistics for this view, use the SQL command ANALYZE. This view supports parallel partitioned index scans.
This view lists all the indextypes.
This view lists all the operators supported by indextypes.
This view lists all jobs in the database.
This is a Trusted Oracle Server view that lists system labels. For more information, see your Trusted Oracle documentation.
This new data view lists all the libraries that a user can access.
This view displays the LOBs contained in tables accessible to the user.
This view displays the LOBs contained in tables accessible to the user.
This view displays partition-level attributes of LOB data subpartitions.
This view is a description view of method parameters of types accessible to the user.
This view is a description view of method results of types accessible to the user.
This view represents the grouping functions (aggregated measures) that appear in the SELECT list of an aggregated materialized view.
This view represents the materialized views that potentially support query rewrite and that have additional information that is available for analysis by applications. This view excludes any materialized view that references a remote table or that includes a reference to a non-static value such as SYSDATE or USER. It also excludes any materialized view that was created as a snapshot prior to Oracle8.1 and that was never altered to enable query rewrite.
This view represents the named detail relations that are either in the FROM list of a materialized view, or that are indirectly referenced through views in the FROM list. Inline views in the materialized view definition are not represented in this table.
This view represents a join between two columns in the WHERE clause of a materialized view.
This view represents the named detail relations that are either in the FROM list of a materialized view, or that are indirectly referenced through views in the FROM list. Inline views in the materialized view definition are not represented in this table.
This view describes the nested tables in tables accessible to the user.
This view contains descriptions of the object tables accessible to the user.
This view lists objects accessible to the user.
This view lists ancillary information for operators.
This view lists argument information for operator bindings.
This view lists operator bindings.
This view lists operators.
This view lists the set of hints which make up the outlines.
This view lists information about outlines.
This view contains column statistics and histogram information for table partitions that the current user can access.
This view contains the histogram data (end-points per histogram) for histograms on table partitions that the current user can access.
This view lists the object level partitioning information for all partitioned indexes that the current user can access.
This view describes the partitioning key columns for partitioned objects that the current user access.
This view describes table-level information for partitioned LOBs, including default attributes for LOB data partitions.
This view lists the object level partitioning information for partitioned tables the current user access.
This view describes tables which have partially dropped tables.
| Column | Datatype | NULL | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
|
OWNER |
VARCHAR2(30) |
NOT NULL |
Owner of the object |
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TABLE_NAME |
VARCHAR2(30) |
NOT NULL |
Name of the table |
This view is a list of all policies on all tables and views that the user has access to.
This view displays information of the queues the user has enqueue or dequeue privilege on. If the user has any of the Advanced Queuing system privileges, like MANAGE ANY QUEUE, ENQUEUE ANY QUEUE or DEQUEUE ANY QUEUE, then all queues in the database will be displayed.
This view lists all the refresh groups that the user can access.
This view lists all the objects in refresh groups, where the user can access the group.
This view lists the names of the dependent detail or container tables of all the summaries or snapshots in the current schema.
This view describes the REF columns and REF attributes in object type columns accessible to the user.
This view lists all registered snapshots.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view is used with Advanced Replication. For more information, see Oracle8i Replication.
This view lists descriptions of sequences accessible to the user.
This view lists all snapshot logs.
This view lists snapshot refresh times.
This view lists all snapshots accessible to the user.
This view lists the text source of all stored objects accessible to the user.
This view lists column statistics and histogram information for table subpartitions.
This view lists the actual histogram data (end-points per histogram) for histograms on table subpartitions.
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This view lists subpartitioning key columns for tables (and Local indexes on tables) partitioned using the Composite Range/Hash method.
This view lists direct path load entries accessible to the user.
This view represents a summary object.
This view lists all synonyms accessible to the user.
This view contains column statistics and histogram information which is in the USER_TAB_COLUMNS view. For more information, see "USER_TAB_COLUMNS".
This view lists the columns of all tables, views, and clusters accessible to the user. To gather statistics for this view, use the SQL command ANALYZE.