Insert error on unfamiliar database

Question

I am running Oracle 10.2.0.4 on a 3-node RAC with Windows Server 2008. I am a newbie that has taken over a database that has been left unattended for months. I am running through the configuration and making sure all the nodes are healthy and trying to tackle tasks as they come.
I need to insert a row and ran this script on development just fine:
insert into table_name(a, b, c)
values (1, 2, 3)
commit;
Once I moved it over to production I get this:
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
I have checked the schema permissions of my user. I have alter, select, and update any table. The table is owned by my schema. I looked for synonyms but have none under my user. I checked views and have 43. I also have 129 triggers. I don't know anything about either the views or triggers but can start to try to go through them if that may be my issue.
Am I missing something simple here?
To add another question on here (sorry). How would you go about discerning all the triggers/views/synonyms in a database you are not familiar with? I have 3751 views, 161 triggers, and 20141 synonyms! I don't know where to start with that or what are the pertinent things that I need to know that I will have time to go through along with everything else?
Thanks for any help or suggestions!

Answer 1

I believe you are logged in as the user you say. However what I believe does not count, only what Oracle says.
Does the table_name show up in the ALL_TABLES query?
How about USER_TABLES then?
Can you run a DESCRIBE in Sqlplus ?
Can you SELECT from this table?
On the views, triggers, and synonyms questions. Why do you need to know these details? A view is just an in-line query, you can run infinate numbers of SQL combinations againist the database. Trying to know all of them is unreasonable in my humble opinion. Unless the trigger is invalid or you want to disable it for say a special update I would not worry much about these. Know what tables have triggers is probably enough. Synonyms are not a concern unless you have a ton of invalid ones, then I would clean them up.
SELECT
  A.OWNER,
  A.OBJECT_NAME,
  A.OBJECT_TYPE,
  A.STATUS,
  B. SYNONYM_NAME,
  B.TABLE_OWNER
FROM
  DBA_OBJECTS  A,
  DBA_SYNONYMS B
where
  A.status='INVALID'
AND
  A.OBJECT_TYPE='SYNONYM'
AND
    B. SYNONYM_NAME = A.OBJECT_NAME;Best Regards
mseberg
Edited by: mseberg on Dec 30, 2011 1:29 PM