V$ and GV$ views and permissions

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"The final set of data dictionary objects are not intended for direct access by most users or commonprograms. Over 1,000 of these views (called fixed views) have names beginning with V$ or GV$. (TheV$ views provide information about the instance you are connected to while the GV$ views providea global view of all instances within a Real Application Clusters database environment.) Monitoringand tuning tools as well as SQL scripts developed by system DBAs will commonly select from theseV$ and GV$ views. Developers without access to these tools may find useful tuning information insome of these views such as V$SQLAREA and V$SYSSTAT. (Access to these views is, by default,restricted so developers will generally have to be granted the SELECT ANY DICTIONARY system privilegeby a DBA before they will be able to view this information.)"


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