How does oracle resolve a reference to an object

Hi all:

If I have a table named TABLE in a database, a public synonym named TABLE that points to this database
and a private synonym TABLE that points to a table called TABLE2, what is the order in which these objects
will be picked by Oracle? Is that - private synonysm followed by public synonym followed by the table?

In other words if I execute select * from TABLE and I have a private synonym TABLE that points to TABLE2,
will that SQL go against the TABLE2?

thank you

Gene Gurevich

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