In the previous chapter, we discussed the Oracle documentation set. Hopefully you have had a chance to explore the documentation so that it is becoming more familiar to you, and thus much more useful to you as well. In this chapter, we turn to a different type of documentation, the data dictionary. We will also examine some of the various dynamic performance views at our disposal.
The documentation we will see in this chapter is in every one of your Oracle databases. It can tell you more about your database than any book can. Every database engine, Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, etc., has some sort ...
