On 10.2.0.5 (EE RAC) and 11.2.0.2.0 (Express) I get "ORA-00942: table or view does not exist" as a normal DBA privileged user (non-sysdba connection). From: rjamya [mailto:rjamya@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2012 2:26 PM To: Powell, Mark Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Database Link Security et al I was able to read the view as dba user in 11202. Raj On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Powell, Mark <mark.powell2@xxxxxx<mailto:mark.powell2@xxxxxx>> wrote: I was unable to read the ku$ view as a DBA so if you have to be a sysdba user to read the view how much of a problem is this really? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l