sql query - table@string meaning I am trying to understand a query . When I run the below query , no rows are fetched. 

select * from Table


But when I run the query , a result is returned having multiple rows.

select * from Table@somestring


I am not sure what @ followed by somestring means and why that is used in PL/SQL.
It's part of a distributed query. The string after the @ is a database link.

You can see where the database link is pointing by querying the all_db_links view, or the user_ or dba_ equivalents depending on the owner and your privileges. It might refer to a TNS alias, in which case you could get further details from the tnsnames.ora file.

When you query table you're (usually) looking at a table in your own schema. When you query table@dblink you're looking at a table in a remote database. They are different objects so you'd expect different results. Your local table is empty, but the remote one has some data.

I say 'usually' because table could be a synonym pointing at another schema, or even to a schema on a remote database itself. And dblink could be pointing back to your own database - it would be unusual but I've seen it done as a way of accessing another schema (not something I'd recommend). Without seeing if there is a synonym or where the dblink is going it's hard to be definitive, but these are less common scenarios. In this case though you're clearly hitting two different tables, probably on different databases. (Well, unless there's a VPD and connecting to the same table as a different user gives a different view... but starting to go down the rabbit hole now...)