Hi all, I am running 11.2 d/b on Oracle Linux 5. I wanted to grant users select on one column (name) in a sys table (v$database). Couldn't find any solutions, but to create a view: create or replace view db_name_v as ( Select name database_name, decode(rtrim(name),'TAURUS', 'Prod') environment from v$database ) ; The user which creates a view has was granted DBA role and CREATE ANY VIEW privs. When I try to create a view I get: SQL> create or replace view db_name_v 2 as 3 ( 4 Select name database_name, 5 decode(rtrim(name),'TAURUS', 'Prod') environment 6 from v$database 7 ) 8 ; from v$database * ERROR at line 6: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges What else can I check? Thanks, Eugene