Re: Data Dictionary reference?

From: Thomas Kyte <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: 1997/05/05
Message-ID: <336e235f.17063636@newshost>#1/1

On 5 May 1997 18:05:04 GMT, lesliet_at_u.washington.edu (L. Tseng) wrote:

>In my old Orcale Administrator Guide for Unix, there is an appendix called Data
>Dictionary Reference containing all the system views, tables decription. It seems
>this valuable information disapeared from Oracle's on-line documentation and from
>the new Administrator Guide. We have Oracle 7.3 for NT.
>What gives? Isn't this infor critical for DBAs?
>
>Leslie

Its all in:

Oracle7 Server Reference
Release 7.3
January 1996
Part No. A32589–1

Which contains all of the

• init.ora parameters and their meaning
• static data dictionary tables (all_*, dba_*, and user_* tables)
• dynamic tables (v$ views)
• nls specific stuff
• database limits
• description of the stuff in $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin
• os dependencies

Hope this helps.

Thomas Kyte
tkyte_at_us.oracle.com
Oracle Government
Bethesda MD

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Opinions are mine and do not necessarily reflect those of Oracle Corporation Received on Mon May 05 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT