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Saurabh K. Gupta
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Saurabh K. Gupta is a seasoned database technologist with extensive experience in designing high performance and highly available database applications. His technology focus has been centered around Oracle Database architecture, Oracle Cloud platform, Database In-Memory, Database Consolidation, Multitenant, Exadata, Big Data, and Hadoop. He has authored the first edition of this book. He is an active speaker at technical conferences from Oracle Technology Network, IOUG Collaborate'15, AIOUG Sangam, and Tech Days. Connect with him on his twitter handle (or SAURABHKG) or through his technical blog www.sbhoracle. wordpress.com, with comments, suggestions, and feedback regarding this book.
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Tracking PL/SQL coding information


The Oracle-supplied dictionary views are a great source of information for performing drill-down analysis of PL/SQL code. Although there are several dictionaries that store PL/SQL object information, the important ones are USER_ARGUMENTS, USER_OBJECTS, USER_SOURCE, USER_PROCEDURES, and USER_DEPENDENCIES. These views also have their ALL_* and DBA_* counterparts. For your reference, the USER, ALL, and DBA category views are described as follows:

  • USER: Contains only the objects that are owned by a user

  • ALL: Contains the objects that can be accessed by a user

  • DBA: Contains all the objects accessible by the SYS user or a user with DBA privileges

You can query the data dictionary views from the DICTIONARY view and their column structure from DICT_COLUMNS view. Let us query the metadata information of the procedure P_CALC_USER_POINTS in these dictionary views.

USER_ARGUMENTS

The USER_ARGUMENTS view captures the argument information of a PL/SQL program. The argument...

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Saurabh K. Gupta

Saurabh K. Gupta is a seasoned database technologist with extensive experience in designing high performance and highly available database applications. His technology focus has been centered around Oracle Database architecture, Oracle Cloud platform, Database In-Memory, Database Consolidation, Multitenant, Exadata, Big Data, and Hadoop. He has authored the first edition of this book. He is an active speaker at technical conferences from Oracle Technology Network, IOUG Collaborate'15, AIOUG Sangam, and Tech Days. Connect with him on his twitter handle (or SAURABHKG) or through his technical blog www.sbhoracle. wordpress.com, with comments, suggestions, and feedback regarding this book.
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