Question

CREATE VIEW customer_ro (name, language, credit)
      AS SELECT cust_last_name, nls_language, credit_limit
      FROM customers

How do i get the names of the aliases(i.e name, language, and credit) with respect to a particular view from the database.(oracle)….

i need to use it via jdbc…

Answer 1

Although views no longer appear in USER_TABLES, they are still in USER_TAB_COLUMNS (and DBA_ and ALL_ equivalents). So you can do this:

SELECT COLUMN_NAME
FROM USER_TAB_COLUMNS
WHERE TABLE_NAME = 'CUSTOMER_RO'
ORDER BY COLUMN_ID;

From jdbc you’d parameterise that, but otherwise the same query will work.