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How can I avoid having to prefix table names with "apps."?

Dino MastriMay 14 2025

Hi, I'm trying to learn some sql mainly to perform queries for issue research. I've connected SQL Developer and am slowly figuring a few things out, but when I query I have to prefix tables names with ‘apps.’ the last time I used sql I did not - that was some year ago. How can this be avoided?

Simple example: if I query “desc mtl_system_item;” – table not found

but “desc apps.mtl_system_item;” - all information returned

This post has been answered by thatJeffSmith-Oracle on May 14 2025
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