One more question : I have a MV. Is there a way to remove the MV part and make it a simple table. Dropping the MV will drop the table and MV too. I need to update a column. Table is huge and I do not want to go thru re-creating it. Thanks For getting sql being executed by a session I generally use v$sqlarea.sql_text by joining it with address with v$session. However, I see that sometimes if a session is doing DDL like create I cannot get it. Even tools like TOAD say : 'no sql for session'. Is there some other way of getting ddl being executed. Especially in case of heavy load and trying to find out what a long running session is doing. A Joshi <ajoshi977@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Thanks Jared, Thomas, Taylor. Apreciated. Can someone answer : For getting sql being executed by a session I generally use v$sqlarea.sql_text by joining it with address. However, I see that sometimes if a session is doing DDL like create I cannot get it. Is there some other way of getting ddl. Especially in case of heavy load and trying to find out what a long running session is doing. Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: On 10/25/07, A Joshi wrote: > Hi, > 1) I am gettting error ORA-12014 when creating a MV on local table with > complete refresh. Not on MV log create. Sounds strange. > Primary key cannot be created on this table. I do not need fast refresh > anyway. Why does it need PK for complete refresh. I tried creating a MV log > with rowid option on the table and that did not help either. > Any workaround. Seeing the SQL might help. If you used ROWID, you should not see this error. > 2) Is there any issue with creating a MV on a MV. For some reason access is > not available to the original table. Look in the docs for 'Nested' Materialized Views > > 5) I have schema schemaA which has a table tableA, tableB. Another schema > schemaB has a view viewA selecting from these tables. There is user userC > who needs to select from view viewA. I gave grant on schemaA tables to > schemaB with "grant option". Then select on viewA was granted to userC. Did > not work. : error : > ORA-01031: insufficient privileges > Then after long struggle I gave select any table select any dictionary to > userD. It works with just those two privs. Howver if I grant select on viewA > to userC it does not work. STrange. You may need to review what you have done. The following example worked for me on 9.2.0.8: As DBA: create user user_a identified by user_a profile barebones default tablespace users temporary tablespace temp; create user user_b identified by user_b profile barebones default tablespace users temporary tablespace temp; create user user_c identified by user_c profile barebones default tablespace users temporary tablespace temp; grant connect, resource to user_a; grant connect, resource to user_b; grant connect, resource to user_c; As user USER_A: create table t1 as select sysdate today from dual; grant select on t1 to user_b with grant option; As USER_B: create view tv as select * from user_a.t1 / grant select on tv to user_c; And finally as USER_C: > sqlplus user_c/user_c SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production on Thu Oct 25 12:11:18 2007 Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production With the Partitioning option JServer Release 9.2.0.8.0 - Production 12:11:27 user_c@orcl SQL> select * from user_b.tv; TODAY ------------------- 10/25/2007 12:08:14 1 row selected. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com