MSCEWI3118

Built-In Views/Tables are not supported by Snowflake

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Severity

Medium

Description

Oracle has a set of built-in views and tables, that are not present in Snowflake, SnowConvert comments out the queries and statements that use these elements and adds an error message.

Example Code

Input Code:

--Simple SELECT 
SELECT * FROM ALL_COL_COMMENTS;


--subquery
SELECT * FROM (SELECT * FROM ALL_COL_COMMENTS);

Output Code:

--Simple SELECT 
SELECT
-- ** MSC-ERROR - MSCEWI3118 - TRANSLATION FOR ORACLE BUILT-IN TABLE/VIEW 'ALL_COL_COMMENTS' IS NOT CURRENTLY SUPPORTED. **
--   * FROM
--   PUBLIC.ALL_COL_COMMENTS
null;

--subquery
SELECT * FROM
(
      SELECT
         -- ** MSC-ERROR - MSCEWI3118 - TRANSLATION FOR ORACLE BUILT-IN TABLE/VIEW 'ALL_COL_COMMENTS' IS NOT CURRENTLY SUPPORTED. **
         --   * FROM
         --   PUBLIC.ALL_COL_COMMENTS
         null);

Recommendations

• Some information provided by Oracle Built-In views, can be found in Snowflake Information Schema or using SHOW command.

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