Oracle DBMS_OBJECTS_UTILS
Version 26ai

General Information
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Purpose This package contains utilities to upgrade the type dictionary images from 8.0 to 8.1. The dictionary tables that could be in 8.0 are kottd$, kottb$, kottbx$, kotad$ and kotmd$, which existed in 8.0 or 8.1, when 8.0 compatibility was possible, kotadx$ was created in 9iR2 when we required 8.1 minimum compatibility.
AUTHID CURRENT_USER
Dependencies
COL$ OBJ$ TYPE$
COLTYPE$ REGISTRY$HISTORY USER$
DBMS_OUTPUT SOURCE$  
Documented No
First Available Not known but ~2007
Security Model Owned by SYS with EXECUTE granted to PUBLIC
Source {ORACLE_HOME}/rdbms/admin/dbmsobj.sql
Subprograms
 
DELETE_ORPHAN_TYPEIDCOLS
Clean up all orphaned entries in col$. Read source code notes dbms_objects_utils.delete_orphan_typeidcols;
exec dbms_objects_utils.delete_orphan_typeidcols;

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
 
FIX_KOTTD_IMAGES
Undocumented dbms_objects_utils.fix_kottd_images;
exec dbms_objects_utils.fix_kottd_images;

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
 
PERSISTABLE_DOWNGRADE_CHECK
Undocumented dbms_objects_utils.persistable_downgrade_check RETURN NUMBER;
SELECT dbms_objects_utils.persistable_downgrade_check;

PERSISTABLE_DOWNGRADE_CHECK
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                          0
 
UPGRADE_DICT_IMAGE
Upgrades the type dictionary images from version 8.0 to 8.1 dbms_objects_utils.upgrade_dict_image;
Deprecated

exec dbms_objects_utils.upgrade_dict_image;
No type dictionary table to upgrade

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

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