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Looks OK to me, only alternative would be that each user had his own synonyms. That's overkill, no?
Thomas Greuter <grth1_at_zh.swissptt.ch> schreef in artikel
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> Hi,
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> What is the best way of easy selecting data from an other user's schema?
> Our tables look as this:
> tableowner.tablename ex. ABC_MGR.PRODS
> the ABC_MGR is table owner and is used as more privileged user. Normal
> users are logging in as TZHuser (ex: TZHGRTH1) and become setted a role
by
> the appl they are using. Login is as follows:
> set role ABC_PB identified by XY;
> to get required privs.
> All the queries a TZHuser is doing look like:
> select * from PRODS; (<- not ABC_MGR.PRODS)
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> We used synonyms to break down the schema-barrier:
> create public synonym PRODS for ABC_MGR.PRODS; (as system)
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> and all the TZHusers may do theirs selects without knowing about ABC_MGR.
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> Q: Is this a common way in Oracle? If no, are there some other ways to
> eliminate the table/schema owner we didn't see?
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> Thanks for every comment on this,
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> Thomas
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Received on Wed Jun 11 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT