January 2012
Intermediate to advanced
542 pages
11h 28m
English
This view describes histograms on all the tables and views generated when collecting statistics using the ANALYZE statement or DBMS_STATS package. There are the equivalent views ALL_TAB_HISTOGRAMS and USER_TAB_HISTOGRAMS; the first contains information on all the objects accessible by the current user, the last on the current user objects in the database.
The most relevant view fields are as follows:
OWNER: The owner of the tableTABLE_NAME: The name of the tableCOLUMN_NAME: The name of the columnENDPOINT_NUMBER: The histogram bucket numberENDPOINT_VALUE: The normalized endpoint value for the bucketENDPOINT_ACTUAL_VALUE: The actual endpoint value (not normalized) for the bucket