Appendix A. Dynamic Performance Views

In this book, we have been presented with many dynamic performance views, used to access a wide spread of details about an Oracle database, regarding different aspects from the sessions to the SQL statement executed.

In this appendix, we present a summary of these views, in alphabetical order, which can be used as a reference. For each view, there is a brief description and a list of the most useful fields of the view.

ALL_OBJECTS

This view lists all the database objects the current user can access. As for many ALL_ views, there are similar DBA_OBJECTS and USER_OBJECTS views; they have the same fields but DBA_OBJECTS shows all the objects in the database, while USER_OBJECTS shows information only on the objects ...

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