Amen to that. And I did something that amounts to that at another place I worked. We made copies of the dba* views, cut out a few minor columns (like password), and handed that to the developers under a different name. Trivial work and everyone was happy. I even received a special company award for thinking of it... On Feb 1, 2008 1:47 PM, Nigel Thomas <nigel_cl_thomas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Lisa > > I think the confusion comes because > - auditors are worried about what the DBA can do > - a developer is granted read access to some "DBA" views > - therefore the auditor (or pointy-haired manager) assumes the developer > can now do something evil that only a DBA should be allowed to do. > > If the DBA_ views were called DEV_ views, and the developer-useful v$ > views were packaged differently, I think a lot of these kind of > misunderstandings would fade away. > > Ah well... > > Regards Nigel > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- Andrew W. Kerber 'If at first you dont succeed, dont take up skydiving.'