2.222 ALL_IND_COLUMNS

ALL_IND_COLUMNS describes the columns of indexes on all tables accessible to the current user.

Related Views

  • DBA_IND_COLUMNS describes the columns of indexes on all tables in the database.

  • USER_IND_COLUMNS describes the columns of indexes owned by the current user and columns of indexes on tables owned by the current user. This view does not display the INDEX_OWNER or TABLE_OWNER columns.

Note:

For join indexes, the TABLE_NAME and TABLE_OWNER columns in this view may not match the TABLE_NAME and TABLE_OWNER columns you find in the *_INDEXES (and other similar) data dictionary views.

Column Datatype NULL Description

INDEX_OWNER

VARCHAR2(128)

NOT NULL

Owner of the index

INDEX_NAME

VARCHAR2(128)

NOT NULL

Name of the index

TABLE_OWNER

VARCHAR2(128)

NOT NULL

Owner of the table or cluster

TABLE_NAME

VARCHAR2(128)

NOT NULL

Name of the table or cluster

COLUMN_NAME

VARCHAR2(4000)

Column name or attribute of the object type column

Note: If you create an index on a user-defined REF column, the system creates the index on the attributes that make up the REF column. Therefore, the column names displayed in this view are the attribute names, with the REF column name as a prefix, in the following form: 

"REF_name"."attribute"

COLUMN_POSITION

NUMBER

NOT NULL

Position of the column or attribute within the index

COLUMN_LENGTH

NUMBER

NOT NULL

Indexed length of the column

CHAR_LENGTH

NUMBER

Maximum codepoint length of the column

DESCEND

VARCHAR2(4)

Indicates whether the column is sorted in descending order (DESC) or ascending order (ASC)

COLLATED_COLUMN_ID

NUMBER

Internal sequence number of the column for which this column provides linguistic ordering

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