Question

I was given an oracle dump file for an existing system. The dump file contained the table PARTS but when I look on the queries being done by the code. It uses mostly M_PARTS and just on one occasion, it uses PARTS. Does oracle allow multiple name on a table?

Note that I am not talking about the alias feature. ie.

Select M_PARTS.*
from PARTS M_PARTS

I want to know if there is a setting to make permanent alias in oracle. Where I just create a table PARTS and I can refer to it as either PARTS or M_PARTS in my query.

Answer 1

Although a synonym was a solution, I found the actual script to build the database and it uses a materialized view instead of a synonym.

create materialized view M_Parts            
tablespace USERS
refresh fast
as select * from Parts