How to recover Tab table of a schema

Question

Dear all,
The tab table of one of the schemas of our database is dropped. The table is not in recyclebin ( we are using Oracle 10g). Please give me the idea for how can we restore the tab table and make it functional. Thanks in advance.
Ravi Ranjan

Answer 1

Is it TAB or TABS ?
Whether TABS is a synonym to USER_TABLES, TAB is a public synonym for TAB view. TAB is keep only for backward compatibility and should not be used for a while.
SQL> select text from all_views where view_name='TAB';
TEXT
select o.name,
      decode(o.type#, 2, 'TABLE', 3, 'CLUSTER',
             4, 'VIEW', 5, 'SYNONYM'), t.tab#
  from  sys.tab$ t, sys.obj$ o
  where o.owner# = userenv('SCHEMAID')
  and o.type# >=2
  and o.type# <=5
  and o.linkname is null
  and o.obj# = t.obj# (+)
SQL> select text from all_views where view_name='TABS';
no rows selected
SQL> select owner,synonym_name,table_name from all_synonyms where synonym_name in ('TAB','TABS');
PUBLIC
TAB
TAB
PUBLIC
TABS
USER_TABLES
SYSTEM
TAB
TABIf TAB is missing, I would be suspicious about others SYS' objects, and without database backup, you could be in big troubles, since it is not advisable to play around SYS objects on your own.
You can go to the guilty and beat him.
Nicolas.