Hi Bogdan,

I guess you are referring to View PLSCOPE_TAB_USAGE. In this example the tables are reported as being part of an INSERT operation. This does not necessarily mean that these tables are used as targets of an INSERT statement. Unfortunately you cannot answer this question with PL/Scope. For that you need a parser. See also “6. Missing Usages and Structures in Static SQL Statements” in Limitations of PL/Scope and How to Deal with Them. I use our own PL/SQL parser to answer these kind of questions. I hope this answers your question.

Regards,
Philipp

that’s a very nice utility that you’ve built. I’ve give it a try yesterday and it works very fine.

I though have a question about it. In your PLSCOPE_TAB_USAGE-example the tables DEPT and EMP are reported as beeing INSERTED, which is not the case (they are only used in the select part of the insert as select statement).

So, in my opinion, the operation type in that case should be SELECT instead of INSERT. Is this a desired behaviour? If so, is there a way to only report the tables on which an INSERT-Operation is really performed?

Thank you,

Bogdan Bachis