How do I query to find out if the MONITORING clause was enabled on a table?

Question

Our customers are currently running Oracle 8.1.7 in the field. I am writing a database schema updater tool that is supposed to examine the schemas and make necessary changes to them.
Recently, the MONITORING clause was added to many of the tables in our schemas. I need to find out if the tables currently have MONITORING enabled.
But, even though the Oracle documentation is very large, again, I cannot find any information about how to determine if MONITORING on a table is on or off.
Any ideas? An SQL query? JDBC metadata?
Tom Harris
Cisco Systems, Inc.

Answer 1

What is the output of the following statements on your system?
Remember, table names are stored in caps in the dictionary if not enclosed within double-quotes.
SQL> create table t (x number) ;
Table created.
SQL> select monitoring from user_tables where table_name = 'T' ;
MON
NO
1 row selected.
SQL> alter table t monitoring ;
Table altered.
SQL> select monitoring from user_tables where table_name = 'T' ;
MON
YES
1 row selected.
SQL> disconnect
Disconnected from Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.5.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options
JServer Release 9.2.0.5.0 - Production
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