something magic about SYS.LINK$ ?

From: EdStevens <quetico_man_at_yahoo.com>
Date: 2 Sep 2005 07:33:56 -0700
Message-ID: <1125671636.554506.56090@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

Oracle 9.2.0.7.0 on Win2003

Stumbled on to this, and don't have an explanation:

Connected as SYSTEM, with the standard, out-of-the-box DBA role:

system_at_NPSTDB.WORLD> select count(*) from sys.link$; select count(*) from sys.link$

                         *

ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

A little further hunting shows that there are only 2 of the sys.$ tables that this happens on ... SYS.LINK$ and SYS.USER_HISTORY$

??? Received on Fri Sep 02 2005 - 09:33:56 CDT