ORA-01039:Insufficient Privileges on the Underlying Objects of the View

Question

Hi,
I have a Query where it is using (SELECT name from v$DATABASE as a Inline View).
But when my running the Explain Plan in Toad it is giving the Error as
'ORA-01039:Insufficient Privileges on the Underlying Objects of the View'
Any help will be appreciable
Thanks and Regards

Answer 1

you need SELECT ANY DICTIONARY privelage Below is a small demonstration.
First iam connecting as a SYSDBA and doing an explain plan on v$database.
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Enter user-name: akivadba/akivadba@akivatst as sysdba
Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options
SQL> set linesize 250
SQL>
SQL> explain plan for select * from v$database
  2  /
Explained.
SQL> select * from table(dbms_xplan.display)
  2  /
PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
Plan hash value: 735420252
| Id  | Operation            | Name     | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT     |          |   100 | 77200 |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 |  MERGE JOIN CARTESIAN|          |   100 | 77200 |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  2 |   FIXED TABLE FULL   | X$KCCDI  |     1 |   710 |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   3 |   BUFFER SORT        |          |   100 |  6200 |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   4 |    FIXED TABLE FULL  | X$KCCDI2 |   100 |  6200 |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
   2 - filter("DI"."INST_ID"=USERENV('INSTANCE'))
16 rows selected.No problem till now every thing is fine. Now iam connecting as a normal user and doing the same.
SQL> connect
Enter user-name: sysadm/sysadm@akivatst
Connected.
SQL>
SQL> explain plan for select * from v$database
  2  /
explain plan for select * from v$database
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01039: insufficient privileges on underlying objects of the viewLook i got the insufficient privileges error. Now let me grant the required privileges.
SQL> connect
Enter user-name: akivadba/akivadba@akivatst as sysdba
Connected.
SQL> GRANT SELECT ANY DICTIONARY TO SYSADM
  2  /
Grant succeeded.Now connect back to the user and try again.
SQL> connect
Enter user-name: sysadm/sysadm@akivatst
Connected.
SQL> explain plan for select * from v$database
  2  /
Explained.
SQL> select * from table(dbms_xplan.display)
  2  /
PLAN_TABLE_OUTPUT
Plan hash value: 735420252
| Id  | Operation            | Name     | Rows  | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time     |
|   0 | SELECT STATEMENT     |          |   100 | 77200 |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   1 |  MERGE JOIN CARTESIAN|          |   100 | 77200 |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|*  2 |   FIXED TABLE FULL   | X$KCCDI  |     1 |   710 |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   3 |   BUFFER SORT        |          |   100 |  6200 |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
|   4 |    FIXED TABLE FULL  | X$KCCDI2 |   100 |  6200 |     0   (0)| 00:00:01 |
Predicate Information (identified by operation id):
   2 - filter("DI"."INST_ID"=USERENV('INSTANCE'))
16 rows selected.
SQL>Thanks,
Karthick.
Edited by: karthick_arp on Sep 1, 2008 12:21 AM