3.141 ALL_EXTERNAL_LOCATIONS

ALL_EXTERNAL_LOCATIONS describes the locations (data sources) of the external tables accessible to the current user.

Related Views

  • DBA_EXTERNAL_LOCATIONS describes the locations (data sources) of all external tables in the database.

  • USER_EXTERNAL_LOCATIONS describes the locations (data sources) of the external tables owned by the current user. This view does not display the OWNER column.

Column Datatype NULL Description

OWNER

VARCHAR2(128)

NOT NULL

Owner of the external table location

TABLE_NAME

VARCHAR2(128)

NOT NULL

Name of the corresponding external table

LOCATION

VARCHAR2(4000)

External table location clause

DIRECTORY_OWNER

CHAR(3)

Owner of the directory containing the external table location

DIRECTORY_NAME

VARCHAR2(128)

Name of the directory containing the external table location