What does the schema in Oracle refer to?

It seems that some people still do not understand the true meaning of the schema, and now I have to tidy up a bit, I hope to be helpful to everyone.

Let's start by looking at their definition:
ASchemais a collection of the database objects (used by a user.).
Schema ObjectsIs the logical structures that directly refer to the database ' s data.
AUseris a name defined in the database that can connect to and Access objects.
Schemas and UsersHelp database administrators manage database security.

From the definition we can see that the schema is a collection of database objects, in order to distinguish the various collections, we need to give this collection a name, these are the many similar username that we see under the Enterprise Manager scheme, These similar username nodes are in fact a schema,schema that includes various objects such as tables, views, sequences, stored procedures, synonyms, indexes, clusters , and database links.

A user generally corresponding to a schema, the user's schema name equals username, and as the user's default schema. This is why we see schema names as database username under the Enterprise Manager scenario. A schema cannot be created in the Oracle database in order to create a schema that can only be solved by creating a user's method (although there is a CREATE SCHEMA statement in Oracle, it is not used to create a schema). At the same time creating a user, create a schem with the same name as username for the user and act as the default shcema for that user. That is, the number of schemas is the same as the number of user, and the schema name is the same as the user name one by one and the same, all of us can call the schema user alias, although this is not accurate, but easier to understand some.

A user has a default schema whose schema name is equal to username, and of course a user can use other schemas. Assuming we visit a table without indicating which schema the table belongs to, the system will voluntarily give us the default Sheman name on the table. For example, when we visit the database, we visit the EMP table under the Scott user, through the select * from EMP; In fact, the full wording of this SQL statement is select * from Scott.emp. The full name of an object in the database is Schema.object, not user.object. The similarity assumes that we do not specify the schema of the object when creating the object, where the schema of the object is the user's default schema. This is like a user has a default tablespace, but the user is also able to use other table spaces, assuming that we do not specify a tablespace when creating an object, the object is stored in the default tablespace, and in order for the object to be stored in another table space, we need to specify the table space for the object when it is created.

Cough, said so much, give us a sample, otherwise, everything is dull!
Sql> Gruant DBA to Scott

Sql> CREATE TABLE Test (name char (10));
Table created.

Sql> CREATE TABLE System.test (name char (10));
Table created.

sql> INSERT into test values (' Scott ');
1 row created.

sql> INSERT into system.test values (' system ');
1 row created.

Sql> commit;
Commit complete.

Sql> Conn System/manager
Connected.

Sql> select * from test;
NAME
----------
System

sql> ALTER SESSION SET current_schema = Scott; --Change user Default schema name
Session altered.

Sql> select * from test;
NAME
----------
Scott

Sql> Select owner, table_name from Dba_tables where Table_name=upper (' test ');
OWNER table_name
------------------------------ ------------------------------
SCOTT TEST
SYSTEM TEST
The above query is the basis for me to say that the schema is the alias of the user. In fact, in use, Shcema is the same as the user, there is no difference, the name of the schema can appear in the place of the user name.

What does the schema in Oracle refer to?