Really? That simple, huh? I'll consider this solved once I get the information from the user. Jeremy From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Toon Koppelaars Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2008 4:47 PM To: SHEEHAN, JEREMY Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: View Creation She needs the select object privilege granted directly from the other schema to her schema. I.e. not via a role. On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 9:30 PM, SHEEHAN, JEREMY <JEREMY.SHEEHAN@xxxxxxx<mailto:JEREMY.SHEEHAN@xxxxxxx>> wrote: I've got a question in View creation and I think it has to do with permissions on the base tables. I've got a user who is trying to create a view on another user's schema, but is unable to. She can select on the tables with no problem, but when she goes to create the view she gets an 'insufficient privileges' error. Does she need select with admin option on the tables in question? Thanks guru's! Jeremy -- +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+- Toon Koppelaars RuleGen BV +31-615907269 toon_at_rulegen_dot_com www_dot_rulegen_dot_com Author: "Applied Mathematics for Database Professionals"