yep -- Oracle does support the ANSI/ISO standard CREATE SCHEMA command, but it *fails* if the schema name does not correspond with the name of an existing database user... Lex. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Kyte Seminar: http://www.naturaljoin.nl/events/seminars.html ---------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Goulet, Dick Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 22:18 To: mccdba1@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [Q] How to create second schema under a user account? I think you're a little confused. A user and a schema are one and the same. There's no way that I know of to build a second schema under a user. Now you can allow a user to proxy for another user.=20 Dick Goulet Senior Oracle DBA Oracle Certified 8i DBA -----Original Message----- From: dba1 mcc [mailto:mccdba1@xxxxxxxxx]=20 Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2004 4:08 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [Q] How to create second schema under a user account? We have ORACLE 9.2.0.6 on UNIX server. I know ORACLE support multiple schemas under a user account. Does any know how to do following and give me a sample: 1. create second schema under a user 2. create table or view under second schema 3. switch between schemas Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around=20 http://mail.yahoo.com=20 -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l