Re: alter session

It's one of the quarky features of Oracle. Contrary to what it may seem logical, ALTER SESSION privilege is not needed for any alter session operation except the sql_trace = true and setting events. In your case SCOTT does not need any ALTER SESSION privilege to alter session set nls*, even setting optimizer_mode!

HTH. Arup Nanda
www.proligence.com

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> Hi list
> I create a user scott
> and then gave him create session, create table privileges only.
> Why is he able to do
> alter session set nls_date_format='dd-mon-yyyy' ;
> and
> alter session set nls_language=French;
> but he is unable to
> alter session set sql_trace=true ;
>
> Is it because nls parameters are client side and sql_trace affects the
> server side ?
>
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