RE: Why dbms_lock.sleep is not working for non-sys users?

From: Goulet, Richard [mailto:Richard.Goulet_at_parexel.com] Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:36 PM
To: Xu, Roger; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: RE: Why dbms_lock.sleep is not working for non-sys users?  

Connect to database as sys

grant execute on dbms_lock to public  

The standard install scripts don't do the grant.  

Dick Goulet    

From: oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org
[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Xu, Roger Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 4:27 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Why dbms_lock.sleep is not working for non-sys users?

SQL> exec dbms_lock.sleep(10);  

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.  

SQL> show user

USER is "SYS"

SQL> connect tsuser

Enter password:

Connected.

SQL> exec dbms_lock.sleep(10);

BEGIN dbms_lock.sleep(10); END;  

      *

ERROR at line 1:

ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:

PLS-00201: identifier 'DBMS_LOCK' must be declared

ORA-06550: line 1, column 7:

PL/SQL: Statement ignored    

SQL>   Thanks  

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