i have a existing table called property i alter a column called overbook_percent (i change a number 2 to 3) but i want to do a source search to make sure that there is not a variable declaration that sets this to just 2 digits. how would i go about this?not sure you called this a source search.
how can i see where this table column is use?
i tried this but get no output
select text
from dba_source
where upper(text) like 'OVERBOOK_MAX'
;
I'm working on toad for oracle
may be you are looking for this:-
select owner, table_name from all_tab_columns where column_name = 'OVERBOOK_MAX';
This will search all tables with a column name OVERBOOK_MAX
For checking in stored procedures you may try this:-
SELECT DISTINCT type, name
FROM dba_source
WHERE owner = 'OWNER'
AND UPPER(text) LIKE '%OVERBOOK_MAX%';
EDIT
to search a string try this:-
SELECT owner, name, type, line, text
FROM dba_source
WHERE instr(UPPER(text), UPPER(:search_string)) > 0;
Related
I have a table named "libisatz" in my database, and there is no table, nor view with name "libiSatz" (with capital S instead of s) and I don't find any kind of object in my schema having name "libiSatz". But, surprisingly selecting from "libiSatz" results in the same result as if I had written "libisatz". If I change any other letter in this name from lower case to upper case (e.g. I write "Libisatz", then I get an error. How can this be?.
ADDENDUM
I've checked the ideas of #Jon Heller with the following result:
Both select * from DBA_OBJECTS where OBJECT_NAME like 'libi_atz'; and select * from DBA_OBJECTS where lower(OBJECT_NAME) = 'libisatz'; returns one single row (it is the "libisatz" table)
select * from DBA_OBJECTS where OBJECT_NAME = 'libisatz'; returns one row and select * from DBA_OBJECTS where OBJECT_NAME = 'libiSatz'; returns no row.
Both select * from DBA_SQL_TRANSLATIONS; and select * from DBMS_ADVANCED_REWRITE; results in ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
select * from DBA_REWRITE_EQUIVALENCES; results in no rows selected
select DUMP(OBJECT_NAME) from DBA_OBJECTS where lower(OBJECT_NAME) = 'libisatz'; returns Typ=1 Len=8: 108,105,98,105,115,97,116,122
So it seems that the puzzle is not yet solved.
ADDENDUM 2.
When I try to create a view named "libiSatz" then I get
ORA-00955: name is already used by an existing object
in spite of the results above.
After I renamed "libiSatz" to "oraclepuzzle",
select count(*) from "libisatz"; and "select count(*) from "oraclepuzzle"; works, but select count(*) from "libiSatz"; doesn't.
select * from dba_objects where object_name in ( 'oraclepuzzle', 'libisatz', 'libiSatz'); returns one row with object_name "oraclepuzzle".
Do you have SQL translations, rewrite equivalances, or UTF8 characters?
The SQL translation framework was built to allow applications designed for other database types to seamlessly query Oracle. But instead of translating syntaxes, the feature could also be used to silently change your queries. For example, here is an example of querying a table that does not exist in order to workaround table size limitations. Check the view DBA_SQL_TRANSLATIONS.
Rewrite equivalences can be created by the package DBMS_ADVANCED_REWRITE, and can be used to silently change the results of wrong queries or for some rare performance problems. (In my simple tests I wasn't able to get this query to work for invalid queries, but I bet there is a way to make it work.) Check the view DBA_REWRITE_EQUIVALENCES.
UTF8 characters may be silently swapped out for similar ASCII characters. This probably depends on your database and client character set settings. The below example is pretty obviously not an ASCII "S", but you may have a more subtle problem. Check the source of your values, retype them manually, and use the DUMP function to evaluate the binary of the characters.
SQL> create table "libisatz"(a number);
Table created.
SQL> -- An uppercase "S" does not work
SQL> select * from "libiSatz";
select * from "libiSatz"
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
SQL> -- But a "LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CARON" works.
SQL> select * from "libišatz";
no rows selected
Lastly, are you 100% sure that the object doesn't exist on your database? The above examples are possible, but extremely rare. Triple-check DBA_OBJECTS.OBJECT_NAME for the mystery object.
My deafult Oracle object names are case insensitive.
So, when you issue teh command:
CREATE TABLE the_table ..
CREATE TABLE The_Table ..
CREATE TABLE THE_TABLE ..
The underlying object name in all cases is THE_TABLE, but you can access it using any mix of upper/lower case:
SELECT * FROM THE_TABLE
SELECT * FROM tHe_TaBlE
SELECT * FROM the_table
Will all work.
When a table is created with the name wrapped in double-quotes, the name becomes case-sensitive.
So, if you issue:
CREATE TABLE "libiSatz" ..
Then the table name in all SQL statements must match the exact name in the double quotes, i.e.
SELECT * FROM "libiSatz" is OK (Correction following comments)
SELECT * FROM libisatz is NOT OK
SELECT * FROM LibiSatz is NOT OK
When you search for this in USER_OBJECTS or USER_TABLES you will have to match the creation name:
SELECT * FROM USER_OBJECTS WHERE OBJECT_NAME = 'libiSatz';
I have some SQL scripts; one of them references an object called "names". I can:
select * from names
and it returns results. However, I cannot see a table called "names". Neither can I see a view called "names". I can't find a custom type called "names".
If I look for one of the columns that is returned by the query select * from names using:
select * from sys.all_tab_columns where column_name like '%MyColumn%'
it finds a table called LSNAMES, but that has no rows.
Any ideas how I can find this "table"?
I'd start the research with understanding what type of object this is:
SELECT owner, object_name, object_type
FROM all_objects
WHERE object_name = 'NAMES'
Once you have a type, you could query some more information from all_<type>s
Look for:
A materialized view called NAMES
SELECT * FROM ALL_MVIEWS WHERE MVIEW_NAME = 'NAMES';
A synonym called NAMES
SELECT * FROM ALL_SYNONYMS WHERE SYNONYM_NAME = 'NAMES';
I want to find the name of the stored procedure, package, function or trigger which is inserting data into a particular table, is there any inbuilt object so that i can use it. I am searching the name of the object from last 2 hours. Kindly help.
You cannot find the inserted PL/SQL block, but you can try out to identify the procedures/functions referring it. And increase your chances of finding.
select
proc_syn.nam,
proc_syn.referenced_owner,
proc_syn.referenced_name,
proc_syn.referenced_type,
syn_tab.table_name
from
dba_dependencies proc_syn, dba_synonyms syn_tab, dba_tables tables
where
REFERENCED_TYPE in ( 'SYNONYM','TABLE')
AND proc_syn.referenced_name = syn_tab.synonym_name
AND syn_tab.synonym_name = tables.table_name
AND syn_tab.owner = 'PUBLIC'
AND REFERENCED_NAME = 'YOUR_TABLE_NAME'
order by
proc_syn.referenced_owner, syn_tab.table_name;
The above query would return the table objects, that refer this table.
Note, this would return, when you use STATIC queries only. Any dynamic queries, is completely out of hand.
You can try by analyzing all the source of your DB with something like this:
select *
from dba_source
where upper(text) like '%TABLE_NAME%'
The pro of this approach is that you will get even dynamic code; the con is that you'll have even select, update, ...
If the table is statically referenced you can check the ALL_DEPENDENCIES view
SELECT * FROM ALL_DEPENDENCIES WHERE REFERENCED_NAME = '<your table>';
This will find all usages, not only insert
You can also search within source code:
SELECT * FROM ALL_SOURCE WHERE UPPER(TEXT) LIKE '%INSERT%<your table>%'
This will find the usage only if INSERT and your table are on the same line.
However if the command is built more dynamically then you will not find it that simply.
You can use user_source or user_dependencies table as below.
Using table user_source
select * from user_source
where upper(text) like '%<YOUR TABLE NAME in UPPER CASE>%'
You can select from user_source , all_source , dba_source depending on user you have logged in and permission that user have.
Using table user_dependencies
SELECT NAME FROM user_dependencies WHERE referenced_name = '<YOUR TABLE NAME in UPPER CASE>'
UNION
SELECT referenced_name FROM user_dependencies WHERE name = '<YOUR TABLE NAME in UPPER CASE>'
You can select from user_dependencies , all_dependencies , dba_dependencies depending on user you have logged in and permission that user have.
I have a table that I will add columns to in the future and don't want to update all my queries when they're added. I'm grabbing a set of column names using information_schema.COLUMNS and I want to use those names as the columns in a SELECT statement, but that's where I'm stuck:
select * into #Temp
from information_schema.COLUMNS
where column_name like '%search_string%' and table_name like 'searched_table'
select ...
So what's the syntax to use that table of column names after the SELECT, instead of listing each name individually?
For a table in oracle, I can query "all_tab_columns" and get table column information, like the data type, precision, whether or not the column is nullable.
In SQL Developer or TOAD, you can click on a view in the GUI and it will spit out a list of the columns that the view returns and the same set of data (data type, precision, nullable, etc).
So my question is, is there a way to query this column definition for a view, the way you can for a table? How do the GUI tools do it?
You can use user_tab_columns (or all_tab_columns and dba_tab_columns respectively) regardless if table_name refers to a view or a table.
View columns appear in all_tab_columns, so you can query them just as you can tables.
Just simply write this query:
SQL> desc TABLE/VIEW NAME;
For example if the table/view name is "department" Then just write:
SQL> desc department;
This will give the list of all fields, it's type and default Null info of the table or view.
you can use the ANSI catalog views, should work for most RDBMs
select *
from information_schema.columns c
join information_schema.tables t on c.table_name = t.table_name
where table_type = 'view'