Select without needing owner for tablename

Question

Sorry for the potentially simplistic/newbie question, but I can't seem to find the answer to this anywhere.
I have a user with the dba role in which I can perform the following statement:
dba_user> select * from users;
I have a second user, created to only have select privilege, when I run the same statement:
read_only_user> select * from users;
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
I have to do it this way:
read_only_user> select * from dba_user.users;
Is there a way to modify the read_only_user so that I don't have to qualify the table names? I already have select statements in other code, so I'm hoping I can change the user privileges instead of having to go back and modify a lot of SQL.

Answer 1

Hi,
tsmori wrote:
Okay, that works, is there a way to make that permanent, and not just for the session?No, ALTER SESSION does exactly that: it alters the session. I don't know of any way to make the settings permanent.
You can make them automatic, by putting them into a LOGIN.SQL file or an AFTER LOGON trigger.
A better, easier solution might be to create synonymns:
CREATE SYNONYM users FOR dba_user.users;Synonyms are permanent (unless you DROP them).
The statement above creates a private synonym in your own schema.
You can also make public synonyms that apply to all users (unless individual users override it by creating their own private synonyms):
CREATE PUBLIC SYNONYM users FOR dba_user.users;Edited by: Frank Kulash on Jun 23, 2009 4:46 PM