Determining identifier types and usages
A lexical unit in a PL/SQL program code is built up using literals, identifiers, delimiters, and comments. All items that are declared in a PL/SQL program as variables, cursors, constants, and subprogram names are identifiers. Identifiers can be reserved words (such as BEGIN
and END
), predefined (declared globally within STANDARD
package), or quoted.
USER_IDENTIFIERS
The USER_IDENTIFIERS
dictionary view reports the usage of identifiers in a PL/SQL program unit. The view includes information about an identifier's name, its type, and usage by line number in a PL/SQL program.
Tracking identifier details for all the subprograms would be additional task during code compilation and therefore, it is collected only ...
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