4.166 ALL_XTERNAL_LOC_PARTITIONS

ALL_XTERNAL_LOC_PARTITIONS describes partition-level locations accessible to the current user.

Related Views

If an external table is partitioned, then the existing ALL_EXTERNAL_LOCATIONS, DBA_EXTERNAL_LOCATIONS, and USER_EXTERNAL_LOCATIONS views will have no rows for that table. Instead, locations will be indicated in the ALL_XTERNAL_LOC_PARTITIONS, DBA_XTERNAL_LOC_PARTITIONS, USER_XTERNAL_LOC_PARTITIONS, ALL_XTERNAL_LOC_SUBPARTITIONS, DBA_XTERNAL_LOC_SUBPARTITIONS, and USER_XTERNAL_LOC_SUBPARTITIONS views.

• DBA_XTERNAL_LOC_PARTITIONS describes partition-level locations in the database.

• USER_XTERNAL_LOC_PARTITIONS describes partition-level locations owned by the current user. This view does not display the OWNER column.

Column	Datatype	NULL	Description
OWNER	VARCHAR2(128)		Owner of the partitioned external table
TABLE_NAME	VARCHAR2(128)		Name of the partitioned external table
PARTITION_NAME	VARCHAR2(128)		Name of the partition
LOCATION	VARCHAR2(4000)		External table location clause for the partition
DIRECTORY_OWNER	CHAR(3)		Owner of the directory containing the external table partition location
DIRECTORY_NAME	VARCHAR2(128)		Name of the directory containing the external table partition location

See Also:

• "DBA_XTERNAL_LOC_PARTITIONS"

• "USER_XTERNAL_LOC_PARTITIONS"