| Oracle® Database Reference 11g Release 1 (11.1) Part Number B28320-01  | 
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ALL_TABLES describes the relational tables accessible to the current user. To gather statistics for this view, use the ANALYZE SQL statement.
Related Views
DBA_TABLES describes all relational tables in the database.
USER_TABLES describes the relational tables owned by the current user. This view does not display the OWNER column.
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Columns marked with an asterisk (*) are populated only if you collect statistics on the table with the ANALYZE statement or the DBMS_STATS package.| Column | Datatype | NULL | Description | 
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OWNER | 
VARCHAR2(30) | 
NOT NULL | 
Owner of the table | 
TABLE_NAME | 
VARCHAR2(30) | 
NOT NULL | 
Name of the table | 
TABLESPACE_NAME | 
VARCHAR2(30) | 
Name of the tablespace containing the table; null for partitioned, temporary, and index-organized tables | |
CLUSTER_NAME | 
VARCHAR2(30) | 
Name of the cluster, if any, to which the table belongs | |
IOT_NAME | 
VARCHAR2(30) | 
Name of the index-organized table, if any, to which the overflow or mapping table entry belongs. If the IOT_TYPE column is not null, then this column contains the base table name. | 
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STATUS | 
VARCHAR2(8) | 
If a previous DROP TABLE operation failed, indicates whether the table is unusable (UNUSABLE) or valid (VALID) | 
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PCT_FREE | 
NUMBER | 
Minimum percentage of free space in a block; null for partitioned tables | |
PCT_USED | 
NUMBER | 
Minimum percentage of used space in a block; null for partitioned tables | |
INI_TRANS | 
NUMBER | 
Initial number of transactions; null for partitioned tables | |
MAX_TRANS | 
NUMBER | 
Maximum number of transactions; null for partitioned tables | |
INITIAL_EXTENT | 
NUMBER | 
Size of the initial extent (in bytes); null for partitioned tables | |
NEXT_EXTENT | 
NUMBER | 
Size of secondary extents (in bytes); null for partitioned tables | |
MIN_EXTENTS | 
NUMBER | 
Minimum number of extents allowed in the segment; null for partitioned tables | |
MAX_EXTENTS | 
NUMBER | 
Maximum number of extents allowed in the segment; null for partitioned tables | |
PCT_INCREASE | 
NUMBER | 
Percentage increase in extent size; null for partitioned tables | |
FREELISTS | 
NUMBER | 
Number of process freelists allocated to the segment; null for partitioned tables | |
FREELIST_GROUPS | 
NUMBER | 
Number of freelist groups allocated to the segment; null for partitioned tables | |
LOGGING | 
VARCHAR2(3) | 
Logging attribute; NULL for partitioned tables | 
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BACKED_UP | 
VARCHAR2(1) | 
Has table been backed up since last change | |
NUM_ROWS* | 
NUMBER | 
Number of rows in the table | |
BLOCKS* | 
NUMBER | 
Number of used data blocks in the table | |
EMPTY_BLOCKS | 
NUMBER | 
Number of empty (never used) data blocks in the table. This column is populated only if you collect statistics on the table using the ANALYZE statement. | 
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AVG_SPACE* | 
NUMBER | 
Average amount of free space, in bytes, in a data block allocated to the table | |
CHAIN_CNT* | 
NUMBER | 
Number of rows in the table that are chained from one data block to another, or which have migrated to a new block, requiring a link to preserve the old ROWID | |
AVG_ROW_LEN* | 
NUMBER | 
Average length of a row in the table (in bytes) | |
AVG_SPACE_FREELIST _BLOCKS | 
NUMBER | 
Average freespace of all blocks on a freelist | |
NUM_FREELIST_BLOCKS | 
NUMBER | 
Number of blocks on the freelist | |
DEGREE | 
VARCHAR2(10) | 
Number of threads per instance for scanning the table | |
INSTANCES | 
VARCHAR2(10) | 
Number of instances across which the table is to be scanned | |
CACHE | 
VARCHAR2(5) | 
Indicates whether the table is to be cached in the buffer cache (Y) or not (N) | 
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TABLE_LOCK | 
VARCHAR2(8) | 
Indicates whether table locking is enabled (ENABLED) or disabled (DISABLED) | 
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SAMPLE_SIZE | 
NUMBER | 
Sample size used in analyzing this table | |
LAST_ANALYZED | 
DATE | 
Date on which this table was most recently analyzed | |
PARTITIONED | 
VARCHAR2(3) | 
Indicates whether this table is partitioned. Set to YES if it is partitioned. | 
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IOT_TYPE | 
VARCHAR2(12) | 
If this is an index-organized table, then IOT_TYPE is IOT, IOT_OVERFLOW, or IOT_MAPPING. If this is not an index-organized table, then IOT_TYPE is NULL. | 
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TEMPORARY | 
VARCHAR2(1) | 
Can the current session only see data that it place in this object itself? | |
SECONDARY | 
VARCHAR2(1) | 
Whether the trigger is a secondary object created by the ODCIIndexCreate method of the Oracle Data Cartridge (Y |N) | 
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NESTED | 
VARCHAR2(3) | 
Indicates whether the table is a nested table (YES) or not (NO) | 
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BUFFER_POOL | 
VARCHAR2(7) | 
The default buffer pool for the object. NULL for partitioned tables | 
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ROW_MOVEMENT | 
VARCHAR2(8) | 
Whether partitioned row movement is enabled or disabled | |
GLOBAL_STATS | 
VARCHAR2(3) | 
For partitioned tables, indicates whether statistics were collected for the table as a whole (YES) or were estimated from statistics on underlying partitions and subpartitions (NO) | 
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USER_STATS | 
VARCHAR2(3) | 
Indicates whether statistics were entered directly by the user (YES) or not (NO) | 
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DURATION | 
VARCHAR2(15) | 
Indicates the duration of a temporary table:
 Null for a permanent table  | 
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SKIP_CORRUPT | 
VARCHAR2(8) | 
Whether the Oracle Database ignores blocks marked corrupt during table and index scans (ENABLED) or raises an error (DISABLED). To enable this feature, run the DBMS_REPAIR.SKIP_CORRUPT_BLOCKS procedure. | 
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MONITORING | 
VARCHAR2(3) | 
Whether the table has the MONITORING attribute set | 
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CLUSTER_OWNER | 
VARCHAR2(30) | 
Owner of the cluster, if any, to which the table belongs | |
DEPENDENCIES | 
VARCHAR2(8) | 
Indicates whether row-level dependency tracking is enabled (ENABLED) or disabled (DISABLED) | 
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COMPRESSION | 
VARCHAR2(8) | 
Indicates whether table compression is enabled (ENABLED) or not (DISABLED); null for partitioned tables | 
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DROPPED | 
VARCHAR2(3) | 
Indicates whether the table has been dropped and is in the recycle bin (YES) or not (NO); null for partitioned tables | 
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