Hello group,
I am very new to Oracle, and just run into something that I cannot
understand: I can create and drop a table, but not rename it.
Here is what my program does:
- create a new user with DBA privileges, and log in as this user:
create user alex identified by *****
grant connect, dba to alex
2. under "alex", create another user:
create user olympia identified by dummy
(I do this for the sake of having another schema; the user does not have to
be able to log in - hence no connect privilege for "olympia").
3. still in "alex" login session, change the current schema to olympia:
alter session set current_schema = olympia
4. create and populate a table:
create table names(fname varchar(20), lname varchar(20), sf_id int)
insert into names (fname,lname,sf_id) values ('Alex', 'Molochnikov', 1)
The table goes into the schema named "olympia", but is accessible to "alex".
5. try renaming the table:
rename names to names1
At this point, Oracle responds:
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
What baffles me is that I can drop the table, or rename a column in it,
without a hitch. I gave ALTER ALL TABLES privilege to "alex", but it did not
help. Search on Google found nothing.
Just before posting this, I tried logging as SYSTEM (SYSDBA) - still cannot
rename the table.
