How to Find Every View In Which a Column is Used.

From: MacGregor, Ian A. <ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 11:33:34 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004423D8.20020411113334@fatcity.com>

The dependencies tables do not go down to the column level. If I want to know all views that access the sal column of scott.emp how do I do this. I can find out the name of the views which access the table via "dependencies", get the view text and parse it by eye. But I don't want to do that. I want the database to do so. I can use dbms_dql.parse, dbms_sql.describe columns, and the text of the view; however, this method does not work very well if the view contains a function or an operation on the column.

Oracle must hold this information somewhere after a statement is parsed, but where ?

Ian
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