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ORA-00942: How can access a table without pre-fixing the schema name

From: baka <mesundara_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 14 Jul 2005 00:08:01 -0700
Message-ID: <1121324881.445165.307160@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com>


Hello ORACLE GURU's
I have a simple problem.
would like to access oracle table without prefixing schema owner name for the read only user. (please look at step 6 for the error) How can i do this without using the oracle synonym. Either by hook or crook or by hacking i would like to access like Step 6:
(i have so many table and procedure,function ) Thanks in advance,
baka

Image of my problem

/* Step 1:connect to dba user */

conect dbausr/dbauser_at_connect9i
/* Step 2:create tables and insert sample data */
create table a
(
 a_one varchar(21)
);
insert into a(a_one ) values ('a fine with dbauser'); create table b
(
 b_one varchar(21)
);
insert into b(b_one ) values ('b fine with dbauser');

/* Step 3: create role */

create role read_role;
grant select on a to read_role;
grant select on b to read_role;

/* Step 4:create user for select purpose */

create user ruser identified by ruser;
grant connect,read_role to ruser;
alter user ruser default role read_role; grant create session,read_role to ruser;

/* Step 5:select table as an owner of the schema */
SQL>
SQL> select * from a;

A_ONE



a fine with dbauser

SQL>
/* Step 6:connect read only user and hit the select statement*/
SQL> connect ruser/ruser_at_scognos;
Connected
SQL> select * from a;
select * from a

              *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist.

SQL> /*Step 7: select the table with prefixing the schema name with read only user */

SQL> select * from dbausr.a;

A_ONE



a fine with dbauser

SQL> Received on Thu Jul 14 2005 - 02:08:01 CDT

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