Hi every body ! hope every body are fine and Doing well with our GRACIOUS ORACLE.
I have heard that the objects in the data dictonary are only views .
and doesn't comprise of any table type objects .
But we can say that view is a subset of table (in deed which exists based on some base table ) .
Is this correct . If so how had these views devloped .

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Shiva Kumar:)

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Shiva
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It is true that we can access data dictionary thru views provided by oracle database. It directly does not expose the metadata information to user due to security issues. As far as i know, internally the metadata is stored in tables only. To protect this information from users, it provides different types of views based on role like dba_tables, all_tables, user_tables etc. In Oracle 9i, we have object types also, but they are internally stored in tables only.
if you find any info contradictory to this, please do let me know.