Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!news.glorb.com!newsfeed.berkeley.edu!ucberkeley!sn-xit-02!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Daniel Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 09:52:35 -0800 Organization: ATS Message-ID: <1078336320.857422@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 27 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:256213 David wrote: > Hi, over the past year many times I have observed > > ORA-01031: insufficient privileges > > when attempting to do various and different in Oracle. I seem to > regularly spend time asking what privileges, what shall priv shall I > grant and it takes time. My question, is there a way to get Oracle to > tell you what privileges you don't have so you can then grant them > quickly? > > Thank you > David > > Oracle 8.1.7 under Win2K No. But the privileges required are almost always documented at http://tahiti.oracle.com if you search for them. -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)