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In Exasol, a database user may own multiple schemas – or even none at all. I connect to my Community Edition to show that:

C:\Users\uh>cd \Program Files (x86)\EXASOL\EXASolution-6.0\EXAplus

C:\Program Files (x86)\EXASOL\EXASolution-6.0\EXAplus>exaplusx64 -c 192.168.56.101:8563 -u sys -p exasol -lang EN

EXAplus 6.0.8 (c) EXASOL AG

Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:28:29 PM CEST
Connected to database EXAone as user sys.
EXASolution 6.0.8 (c) EXASOL AG

SQL_EXA> create user adam identified by adam;
EXA: create user adam identified by adam;

Rows affected: 0

SQL_EXA> grant dba to adam;
EXA: grant dba to adam;

Rows affected: 0

SQL_EXA> select user_name from exa_dba_users;
EXA: select user_name from exa_dba_users;

USER_NAME
------------------------------------------------------------
SYS
ADAM

2 rows in resultset.

SQL_EXA> select schema_owner,schema_name from exa_schemas;
EXA: select schema_owner,schema_name from exa_schemas;

SCHEMA_OWNER
-------------------------------------------------------------
SCHEMA_NAME
-------------------------------------------------------------
SYS
RETAIL

1 row in resultset.

SQL_EXA> connect adam/ADAM;

Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:34:42 PM CEST
Connected to database EXAone as user adam.
EXASolution 6.0.8 (c) EXASOL AG

SQL_EXA> create table t1 (n number);
EXA: create table t1 (n number);
Error: [42000] no schema specified or opened or current schema has been dropped [line 1, column 27] (Session: 1601269589413551548)
SQL_EXA> open schema adam;
EXA: open schema adam;
Error: [42000] schema ADAM not found [line 1, column 13] (Session: 1601269589413551548)

Demo user adam has the DBA role granted but there is no adam schema yet. I need to create it first:

EXA: create schema adam;

Rows affected: 0

SQL_EXA> open schema adam;
EXA: open schema adam;

Rows affected: 0

SQL_EXA> create table t1 (n number);
EXA: create table t1 (n number);

Rows affected: 0

SQL_EXA> create schema adam2;
EXA: create schema adam2;

Rows affected: 0

SQL_EXA> create table adam2.t2 (n number);
EXA: create table adam2.t2 (n number);

Rows affected: 0

SQL_EXA> select table_schema,table_name from exa_user_tables;
EXA: select table_schema,table_name from exa_user_tables;

TABLE_SCHEMA
--------------------------------------------------------
TABLE_NAME
--------------------------------------------------------
ADAM
T1
ADAM2
T2

2 rows in resultset.

As you see, user adam has now two schemas with different tables in them. Now briefly to privileges:

SQL_EXA> create user fred identified by fred;
EXA: create user fred identified by fred;

Rows affected: 0

SQL_EXA> grant create session to fred;
EXA: grant create session to fred;

Rows affected: 0

SQL_EXA> grant select on adam.t1 to fred;
EXA: grant select on adam.t1 to fred;

Rows affected: 0

SQL_EXA> connect fred/FRED;

Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:53:34 PM CEST
Connected to database EXAone as user fred.
EXASolution 6.0.8 (c) EXASOL AG

SQL_EXA> select * from adam.t1;
EXA: select * from adam.t1;

N
-----------------

0 rows in resultset.

SQL_EXA> select * from adam2.t2;
EXA: select * from adam2.t2;
Error: [42500] insufficient privileges: SELECT on table T2 (Session: 1601270776421928841)
SQL_EXA> connect adam/ADAM;

Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:54:33 PM CEST
Connected to database EXAone as user adam.
EXASolution 6.0.8 (c) EXASOL AG

SQL_EXA> create role allonadam2;
EXA: create role allonadam2;

Rows affected: 0

SQL_EXA> grant all on adam2 to allonadam2;
EXA: grant all on adam2 to allonadam2;

Rows affected: 0

SQL_EXA> grant allonadam2 to fred;
EXA: grant allonadam2 to fred;

Rows affected: 0

SQL_EXA> connect fred/FRED;

Wednesday, May 23, 2018 3:55:54 PM CEST
Connected to database EXAone as user fred.
EXASolution 6.0.8 (c) EXASOL AG

SQL_EXA> select * from adam2.t2;
EXA: select * from adam2.t2;

N
-----------------

0 rows in resultset.

SQL_EXA> drop table adam2.t2;
EXA: drop table adam2.t2;
Error: [42500] insufficient privileges for dropping table (Session: 1601270923042332982)

That’s because ALL contains ALTER, DELETE, EXECUTE, INSERT, SELECT and UPDATE but not DROP which can be confirmed using EXA_DBA_OBJ_PRIVS.