Table or View Not Found Problem

Question

Hi all,
I am facing a strange problem where-in I am calling a query from a normal SQl window which works but the same in Procedure gives me an error.
User A...This runs this statement
Select * from B.emp which gives results. The same statement when I compile in a procedure it gives an error saying Table or View not Found.
User A has a select on B.Emp where B is the owner of table Emp.
I am not able to get to the solution of the same. Is it apossibility of a synonym conflict? Can someone help in what ways this error can come?
Thanks and Regards,
Kapil Uppal

Answer 1

Hi,
>>Well the error is Table Or View Does not exist
Interesting, what version of Oracle are you using ? As you can see below, the stored procedure does not recognized the privilege that have been granted through a role.
LEGATTI@ORACLE10> create user user1 identified by user1;
User created.
LEGATTI@ORACLE10> create user user2 identified by user2;
User created.
LEGATTI@ORACLE10> grant connect,resource to user1,user2;
Grant succeeded.
LEGATTI@ORACLE10> create table user1.emp (id number);
Table created.
LEGATTI@ORACLE10> create role user1_role_tables;
Role created.
LEGATTI@ORACLE10> grant user1_role_tables to user2;
Grant succeeded.
LEGATTI@ORACLE10> grant select on user1.emp to user1_role_tables;
Grant succeeded.
LEGATTI@ORACLE10> connect user2/user2
Connected.
USER2@ORACLE10> select count(*) from user1.emp;
  COUNT(*)
         0
USER2@ORACLE10> create or replace procedure my_test_procedure as
  2  n_id number;
  3  begin
  4  select count(*) into n_id from user1.emp;
  5  end;
  6  /
Warning: Procedure created with compilation errors.
USER2@ORACLE10> show errors
Errors for PROCEDURE MY_TEST_PROCEDURE:
LINE/COL ERROR
4/1      PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored
4/38 PL/SQL: ORA-01031: insufficient privilegesCheers