there are no public synonyms for the tables involved. On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 6:07 PM, chet justice <chet.justice@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Are you 100% sure there aren't any public synonyms? > > > > On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Neil Kodner <nkodner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Version 10.2.0.4 >> >> User A owns a handful of tables, User B has select privileges on the >> tables through both PUBLIC and role SELRAWEREP. User B contains no synonyms >> to any of User As tables or views. It is confirmed that User B can query >> the necessary tables when qualifying with the table owner. >> >> User A creates a somewhat complex view (view 1) with a few nested >> subqueries, ANSI-style-outer-joined to the other tables in the view's FROM >> clause. User A then grants select on the view to both User B directly, and >> to SELRAWEREP. User B tries to select from the view and receives ORA-00942. >> >> >> I then create a new version of the view and fully-qualify each table name >> with the table owner(view 2). User B can query the view just fine. >> >> I remove the references to the table owner and then rework the ANSI >> Outer-join to a standard Oracle-style inner join.(view 3). User B can query >> that view just fine. >> >> I then create view4 which is a copy of view 3 but outerjoining the >> subquery, which matches the intent of the original view. User B is back to >> receiving ORA-00942 when trying to query it. >> >> Finally, I modify the original view and change the ANSI outer join into an >> ANSI equi-join, user B still gets ORA-00942. >> >> >> My views may be found at http://www.neilkodner.com/views.txt >> >> I can't find the documentation that explains what's going on here. I >> can't tell if this is an outer-join issue, an issue with combining >> ANSI-style joins with traditional Oracle joins, or something else. Does >> anyone have an idea, or can at least cite the documentation that explains >> all of this? >> > >