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Wednesday, 3 May 2017

How to find table by a column name in Oracle?

Check table info
SQL> desc employees
or
SQL>
select * from all_tab_columns where lower(table_name) = 'employees'

Find column name 
e.g. 
Current user scope:
SQL>
select * from all_tab_columns where lower(column_name) = 'employee_id'

DBA user scope:
SQL>
select * from dba_tab_columns where lower(column_name) = 'employee_id'