Oracle 101: How to Get a List of All Tables in Your Database

 

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To Get a List of All Tables in Your Oracle Database, you can query the user_tables or all_tables view depending on your privileges. Here's how to do it:

1. Using user_tables view:

sql
SELECT table_name FROM user_tables;

This will give you a list of all tables owned by the current user.

2. Using all_tables view:

sql
SELECT owner, table_name FROM all_tables;

This will give you a list of all tables that you have access to. If you are querying as a privileged user, you will get a list of all tables in the database.

Note that in both cases, the table names are returned in uppercase by default. If you want to see the names in their original case, you can use double quotes around the table name, like this:

sql
SELECT table_name FROM user_tables WHERE table_name = "MyTable";

Also, keep in mind that if you are querying a remote database, you will need to prefix the table name with the database name, like this:

sql
SELECT table_name FROM remote_db.user_tables;