I know how to get all columns in oracle.
select * from all_tab_columns
but how can I get all columns from SYNONYMSas well?
Is this possible to do in oracle?
Isn't that a bit redundant? If you can see the table a synonym points to, then selecting from all_tab_columns gets you what you want.
You can get any synonyms for tables you can see thusly:
SELECT atc.*, s.synonym_name
FROM all_tab_columns atc LEFT JOIN all_synonyms s
ON (atc.owner = s.table_owner AND atc.table_name = s.table_name)
ORDER BY atc.owner, atc.table_name;
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I'm new in Oracle. I have a table that lists tablenames of database. Its name is "AD_Table". I want to select ID table, and createdby from ad_table list. For example in ad_table it has one column name tablename that represents table name in database:
tablename
---------
AD_Tab1
AD_Tab2
AD_Tab3
AD_Tab4
AD_Tab5
AD_Tab6
AD_Tab7
AD_Tab8
AD_Tab9
AD_Tab10
I want query like this :
SELECT
createdby
from (SELECT TABLENAME FROM AD_TABLE)
but it won't work. Can anyone help?
In Oracle you can have many tables with the same name, on different schemas;
assuming that you need to find all the tables, and their owners, whose names are contained in your table, you can try with something like this:
select owner, table_name
from AD_table AD
inner join dba_tables DBA ON ( dba.table_name = UPPER(ad.tableName))
Notice that you need to log in with a user having rights to make a select on DBA_TABLES to run this query.
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'm trying to write a query to get the latest schema changes to a table or stored procedure on Oracle.
This is how to do this on Sybase:
select top 10 name from sysobjects where type = 'U' order by crdate desc
(I accept that this is built on created date and not modified date - I'd appreciate anyone who can show me how the modified date works in Sybase for tables but what I'm looking for is Oracle schema change date right now).
My question is: What is the Oracle query to get latest table or stored procedure schema change?
select * from
(SELECT * FROM user_objects ORDER BY last_ddl_time DESC)
where rownum <= 10;
user_objects contains all the objects owned by the current user (= current schema objects)
all_objects contains all the objects on which the user has any privileges
dba_objects contains all the DB objects (requires some special privileges to access).
all_ and dba_ have the additional column owner
3rd party edit
You may want to read does-rebuilding-an-index-update-the-last-ddl-time ...
From ROWNUM Pseudocolumn
For each row returned by a query, the ROWNUM pseudocolumn returns a
number indicating the order in which Oracle selects the row from a
table or set of joined rows. The first row selected has a ROWNUM of 1,
the second has 2, and so on.
You can use ROWNUM to limit the number of rows returned by a query,...
If you want to be specific about the table or procedure, you can limit like below
with 11g database
select * from
(SELECT * FROM user_objects where OBJECT_TYPE in ('TABLE','PROCEDURE') ORDER BY last_ddl_time DESC)
where rownum <= 10;
The above will give the latest changed objects either in table or procedure.
whereas in 12c database no need to use subquery
SELECT * FROM user_objects
where OBJECT_TYPE in ('TABLE','PROCEDURE')
ORDER BY last_ddl_time DESC
FETCH FIRST 10 ROWS ONLY;
I created the following table:
Create table temp.test(c1 VARCHAR2(10 BYTE));
I was trying to use CHAR_USED to determine whether the column size is in BYTES or CHARS but all I am getting back is '0 rows fetched from 1 column'. The database version i am using is Oracle 11g. Does anyone have a clue as to why it is not return the semantic length information for this table?
The query used are as follows:
select CHAR_USED from all_tab_columns where table_name='temp.test'
select CHAR_USED from all_tab_columns where table_name='test' and owner = 'temp'
Assuming that you are not using case-sensitive identifiers (which you are not and should not), object names are stored in the data dictionary in upper case. So when you query a table like all_tab_columns, you'd need to use upper-case
SELECT column_name, char_used
FROM all_tab_columns
WHERE table_name = 'TEST'
AND owner = 'TEMP'
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'