Question

If someone does something like:

CREATE OR REPLACE TYPE some_type AS OBJECT(whatever NUMBER);

and then I do something like:

SELECT type_name FROM some_magic_table WHERE type_name = 'some_type';

should i reasonably expect oracle to work like this?

I don’t wish to rely on Oracle SQL Developer interface to eyeball types all the time, that’s why.

I am using 10g btw.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Yes, it is called USER_TYPES (I guess a SYS view).

Try this(if the type was created by the schema/user running this query):

SELECT * 
  FROM user_types 
 WHERE type_name = 'SOME_TYPE'; 

To look into TYPES that you have access to irrespetive of the schema:

SELECT * 
  FROM all_types 
 WHERE type_name = 'SOME_TYPE';