How can I find the underlying column and table name for an Oracle view?

Question

This sounds like it should be simple to do but not so! There is no Oracle (meta-data) view that I can find that gives the underlying column and table name for an Oracle view col

Answer 1

The linked procedures may be of some help for identifying dependencies

The DBA_DEPENDENCIES View will give you a list of the tables that a View is based on:

SELECT *
  FROM DBA_DEPENDENCIES
 WHERE OWNER = 
   AND NAME = 
   AND TYPE = 'VIEW'