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Re: Testing a table existence

From: Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk>
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2001 15:20:50 -0000
Message-ID: <3c16249d$0$236$ed9e5944@reading.news.pipex.net>


"Andrew Mobbs" <andrewm_at_chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote in message news:m9x*Svybp_at_news.chiark.greenend.org.uk...
> Niall Litchfield <n-litchfield_at_audit-commission.gov.uk> wrote:
> >However you need dba privs to query this view and would want to specify
the
> >owner of the table.
>
> To be pedantic, you need select_catalog_role privilege, not full DBA.

Quite right. to be really really pedantic one needs select privs on USER$,TS$,SEG$,OBJ$ AND TAB$.

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Niall Litchfield
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