Josh, I use them all the time. Standard practice here. I used to use public synonyms but now use private syns. The schema who owns the objects creates private syns for the users who need them. Tom -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joshua D. Drake Sent: Tuesday, November 30, 2010 7:31 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Synonyms Hello, Kind of out of left field here but I was curious about how many people here use Synonyms and the types of synonyms they are normally using, i.e; table/view/column? Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake -- PostgreSQL.org Major Contributor Command Prompt, Inc: http://www.commandprompt.com/ - 509.416.6579 Consulting, Training, Support, Custom Development, Engineering http://twitter.com/cmdpromptinc | http://identi.ca/commandprompt -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l ��i��0���zX���+��n��{�+i�^