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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Tables, clusters, and views

These views provide information about tables, clusters, and views:

*_ALL_TABLES

Lists all object and relational tables.

*_CLU_COLUMNS

Lists all cluster keys.

*_CLUSTER_HASH_EXPRESSIONS

Lists the hash values used for the optional cluster hash indexes.

*_CLUSTERS

Lists all clusters in the database.

*_COL_COMMENTS

Shows comments on all table and view columns.

*_TAB_COL_STATISTICS

Contains column information about analyzed columns.

*_TAB_COLUMNS

Shows all table and view columns.

*_TAB_COMMENTS

Shows all comments on tables and views.

*_TAB_HISTOGRAMS

Shows all table histograms.

*_TABLES

Shows all relational tables.

*_UPDATABLE_COLUMNS

Lists columns in views with joins that can be updated.

*_VIEWS

Shows all views.

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