The structure for Oracle objects is a tree structure. Not a table structure in rows and columns.
As I wrote in my posts on the parents and children of database objects, a tree structure of Oracle object might be:
TYPE TABLE VIEW FUNCTION PROCEDURE
In another post, there is a query I wrote to show object dependencies. DBA_DEPENDENCIES will show the object’s parents. Or the children. But only one level up, or down.
Trying to see the tree structure using SQL queries is problematic. The reason being, the output from SQL is not a tree at all. And, as I wrote before, the very same object can be seen multiple times in the output.
NEO4J And Gephi:
Recently, I’ve been using the graph database, NEO4J. It is perfectly suited to create tree structures and store them in a database.
In Oracle 11.2, I snagged the data from DBA_OBJECTS and DBA_DEPENDENCIES, created Cypher commands to insert the nodes into NEO4J, and created the relationships/vertexes between the nodes. Then I used Gephi to visualize the graph with different layouts. See some different output.
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All the parents and children of the View, SYS.DBA_OBJECTS, and the Synonym, PUBLIC.DBA_OBJECTS.
Using the Yifan Hu layout radiates all the nodes.
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Using the DAG layout shows the objects more like a tree.
As you can see, with so many nodes, adding the labels for the owner.object_name becomes very crowded.
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The same graph can be rotated.
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Highlighting the parents of the View, SYS.DBA_OBJECTS:
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Highlighting the parents and the children of the Synonym, PUBLIC.DBA_OBJECTS. DAG layout.
or:
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Using my script, fchild_tree.sql, in SQLPLUS, for DBA_OBJECTS, I get the children:
CHILD_LVL_OBJID_ROWNUM
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SYNONYM PUBLIC.DBA_OBJECTS 1 3193 1
PACKAGE BODY WMSYS.LTUTIL 2 13453 2
PACKAGE BODY WMSYS.LTDTRG 2 13458 3
PACKAGE BODY WMSYS.WM_DDL_UTIL 2 13460 4
PACKAGE BODY CTXSYS.DRICON 2 55733 5
PACKAGE BODY CTXSYS.DRIUTL 2 55758 6
PACKAGE BODY OLAPSYS.CWM2_OLAP_UTILITY 2 65353 7
VIEW SYS.DBA_INVALID_OBJECTS 1 3194 8
SYNONYM PUBLIC.DBA_INVALID_OBJECTS 2 3195 9
PROCEDURE SYS.VALIDATE_SDO 2 65640 10
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What do you think? Does the graph look better than the text? Which communicates more?
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