Hi Luis, Please check this exercies :- Moral - SQL> create role emp_select; Role created. SQL> grant select on emp to emp_select; Grant succeeded. SQL> connect text/text Connected. SQL> ed Wrote file afiedt.buf 1 create view text_emp_select 2* as select *from scott.emp SQL> / as select *from scott.emp * ERROR at line 2: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges ********************************** But when we directly grant the object role ie without role, the view will be created without any error :- SQL> connect scott/tiger Connected. SQL> drop role emp_select; Role dropped. SQL> grant select on emp to text; Grant succeeded. SQL> connect text/text Connected. SQL> create view emp_select as select *from scott.emp; View created. But when we grant the ALTER ANY ROLE to TEXT user he/she can create a view:- SQL> ed Wrote file afiedt.buf 1* grant alter any role to text SQL> / Grant succeeded. SQL> connect text/text Connected. SQL> create view emp_select as select *from scott.emp; View created. SQL> Hope I cleared your doubt :-) QUERIES in Oracle, Feel free to Join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oracle_expert/ Regards, Sunil Bhola Oracle_Expert, Moderator Jose Luis Delgado <joseluis_delgado@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: DBAs... Sorry if this is a silly question, my brain is not thinking clearly today... 1.- UserA gives SELECT privileges on his tables to UserB trough a role RoleA. 2.- UserB creates ViewA, querying the UserA tables. 3.- UserB creates viewB, which query ViewA, in his own schema. He gets: ORA-01031 Insufficient privileges Of course, this is because of he cannot query the tables (through the role, right?) that the ViewA is pointing to... the point here is: What could be the best solution to give UserB enough privileges to query the view, without having a mess with privileges?? Thanks in advance! JL ____________________________________________________ Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l QUERIES in Oracle, Feel free to Join: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/oracle_expert/ Regards, Sunil Bhola Oracle_Expert, Moderator --------------------------------- Start your day with Yahoo! - make it your home page