Hi Peter, thanks, it is working. But the user L2930 has DBA privileges (which includes select any table). I thought that direct grants (i.e. not through roles) would only be necessary with PL/SQL blocks... Thanks, Helmut -----Original Message----- From: Hitchman, Peter [mailto:Peter.Hitchman@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2004 2:56 PM To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: RE: Why does this "create view" statement fail? Hi, The schema dwhdata needs to grant the select privilege directly to the schema L2930, for L2930 to be able to create the view. Regards Pete -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Daiminger, Helmut Sent: 27 April 2004 13:46 To: 'LazyDBA.com Discussion'; 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: Why does this "create view" statement fail? Hi! I am experiencing something weird here... I am the user L2930 (with DBA role). When I issue a select statement to select data from another user's table, it works fine: SQL> select count(beadat) from dwhdata.b3000t; COUNT(BEADAT) ------------- 3 Now I want to put that exact select statement in a view: SQL> create view testview as select beadat from dwhdata.b3000t with read only; create view test as select beadat from dwhdata.b3000t with read only * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges That doesn't make much sense to me... Any ideas? This is 9.2 on HP-UX 11i. Thanks, Helmut ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------