Why doesn't Oracle tell you WHICH table or view does not exist?

Question

If you\'ve used Oracle, you\'ve probably gotten the helpful message \"ORA-00942: Table or view does not exist\". Is there a legitimate technical reason the message doesn\'t incl

Answer 1

@Matthew

Your query's a start, but it might not work when you have multiple schemas. For example, if I log into our instance as myself, I have read access to all our tables. But if I don't qualify the table name with the schema I'll get an ORA-00942 for tables without synonyms:

SQL> select * from tools; 
select * from tools 
              * 
ERROR at line 1: 
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist 

The table still shows up in all_tables though:

SQL> select owner, table_name from all_tables where table_name = 'TOOLS'; 

OWNER                          TABLE_NAME 
------------------------------ ------------------------------ 
APPLICATION                    TOOLS 

@erikson Sorry that doesn't help much. I'm with Mark - I used TOAD.