On Tue, November 2, 2004 7:16 am, DENNIS WILLIAMS said: > I have a group of users that should only see a subset of data in certain > tables. They share a role. I will create a view that implements that, and > add it to their role. Then, to allow them to use the same queries as other > users, I will have them individually create private synonyms that point to > their views. Does anyone know of a better way, where each user won't have to > create several private synonyms? This is Oracle 9i. Sorry to ask the obvious question, but *why* don't you just use private synonyms? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l