All these "ANY" privileges should be granted with caution. In some cases we give the schema owner password to the Team Lead and he/she decides which developer will have it. Or else we create individual user accounts and grant sel/ins/del/upd through roles and pvt.synonyms ; The developers in few cases keep their own version of the package/procedure. The only possible catch is when they test dynamic sql (i am not 100% sure on this, i would like you verify this prior to proceeding) in which case direct dml privs would need to be granted and not thru a role. Since i donot like cross posting across oracle forums i have removed all other than oracle-l (my favorite list). HTH GovindanK On Thu, 01 Feb 2007 14:33:15 -0500, "Jeffrey Beckstrom" <JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx> said: What privileges do you grant in your TEST environments? Do you grant "insert any table" or do you grant privileges to specific objects? Jeffrey Beckstrom Database Administrator Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority 1240 W. 6th Street Cleveland, Ohio 44113