We just had someone go through this and Think you need all of these GRANT ALTER SESSION TO &&USER; GRANT CREATE SESSION TO &&USER; GRANT CREATE SYNONYM TO &&USER; GRANT CREATE TABLE TO &&USER; GRANT CREATE TYPE TO &&USER; GRANT CREATE VIEW TO &&USER; GRANT DROP ANY DIRECTORY TO &&USER; GRANT RESOURCE TO &&USER; Hope that helps, Larry -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Schauss, Peter (ESS) Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 9:57 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Privileges for registering an XML schema This is Oracle 11.2.0.3 running on AIX 5.3. Following the example in the "Using Oracle XML DB" I run: BEGIN DBMS_XMLSCHEMA.registerSchema( SCHEMAURL => 'http://local_host:8080/xdb/documentation/MY_Schema.xsd', SCHEMADOC => bfilename('XML_FILES','MY_Schema.xsd'), LOCAL => TRUE, GENTYPES => TRUE, GENTABLES => TRUE, CSID => nls_charset_id('WE8ISO8859P1')); END; And get: ORA-31061: XDB error: DBMS_XDBZ.ENABLE_HIERARCHY ORA-06512: at "XDB.DBMS_XDBZ0", line 131 ORA-06512: at "XDB.DBMS_XDBZ0", line 588 ORA-01031: insufficient privileges ORA-06512: at "XDB.DBMS_XDBZ", line 37 ORA-06512: at line 1 ORA-06512: at "XDB.DBMS_XMLSCHEMA_INT", line 37 ORA-06512: at "XDB.DBMS_XMLSCHEMA", line 65 ORA-06512: at "XDB.DBMS_XMLSCHEMA", line 136 ORA-06512: at line 2 My user has the following privileges: create table create any directory xdbadmin create view create type MOS says that xdbadmin is the only privilege I need to run this stored procedure. What am I missing? Thanks, Peter Schauss -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l *************************************************************************** The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please resend this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. Thank You. **************************************************************************** -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l