General Views

The views that are common for all services are as follows:

View Contains

HS_FDS_CLASS

Names of the classes that are uploaded into the Oracle data dictionary

HS_FDS_INST

Names of the instances that are uploaded into the Oracle data dictionary

HS_CLASS_INIT

Information about the Heterogeneous Services initialization parameters

For example, you can access multiple Sybase gateways from an Oracle database server. After accessing the gateways for the first time, the information uploaded into the Oracle database server could appear as follows:


SQL> SELECT * FROM HS_FDS_CLASS; 

FDS_CLASS_NAME        FDS_CLASS_COMMENTS             FDS_CLASS_ID
--------------------- ------------------------------ ------------
Sybase816             Uses Sybase driver, R1.1                 1
Sybase817             Uses Sybase driver, R1.2                21

Two classes are uploaded: a class that accesses Sybase816 and a class that accesses Sybase817. The data dictionary in the Oracle database server now contains capability information, SQL translations, and data dictionary translations for both Sybase816 and Sybase817.

The Oracle database server data dictionary also contains instance information in the HS_FDS_INST view for each non-Oracle system instance that is accessed.