Re: Completed de Meta-base

I assume you mean by meta-model the views which are set up in the system catalog like all_tables, all_tab_columns, all_indexes, all_views and corresponding user_% and dba_% families.
Fooling around with this is generally NOT supported by ORACLE. You do however, have access to the definitions of all of this stuff in the ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin directories.
You should also get the DBA guide where the views are summarised in the appendix. Specific explanation is also found in the concepts manual and sometimes in the application developers guide.

Depends what you want to do: you may want to look into using the COMMENT command - this allows you to attach a comment of up to 2000 bytes to a table, view or snapshot or one of its columns. Maybe you could encode you additional info into one of these. cheers
mr Received on Wed Jan 03 1996 - 00:00:00 CET