The current user username has not been granted the ADVISOR privilege despite having it !

Question

Hi,
I'm trying to follow ML note 2499931.1 'Using Dbms_Advisor.Tune_Mview To Optimize Materialized Views For Fast Refresh' and am receiving an error suggesting the user4 does Not have the Advisor privilege
despite the fact that it does. What am I missing ?
Every note I've found so far suggests granting the privilege is the fix.
I have and continue to receive the error.
Version 11.2.0.3 on Redhat 5
select * from dba_sys_privs where grantee = 'SOAUSER';
GRANTEE                        PRIVILEGE                                ADM
SOAUSER                        CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW                 NO
SOAUSER                        CREATE VIEW                              NO
SOAUSER                        CREATE PUBLIC SYNONYM                    NO
SOAUSER                        SELECT ANY DICTIONARY                    NO
SOAUSER                        ON COMMIT REFRESH                        NO
SOAUSER                        CREATE ANY DIRECTORY                     NO
SOAUSER                        CREATE DATABASE LINK                     NO
SOAUSER                        SELECT ANY TABLE                         NO
SOAUSER                        ADVISOR                                  NO
SOAUSER                        UNLIMITED TABLESPACE                     NO
SOAUSER                        CREATE SESSION                           NO
Error at line 2
ORA-13616: The current user SOAUSER has not been granted the ADVISOR privilege.
ORA-06512: at "SYS.PRVT_ADVISOR", line 4869
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_ADVISOR", line 1969
ORA-06512: at "SYS.PRVT_TUNE_MVIEW", line 490
ORA-06512: at "SYS.PRVT_TUNE_MVIEW", line 970
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_ADVISOR", line 739
ORA-06512: at line 3
Thanks in Advance
Ken

Answer 1

Sorry, but the code I was receiving the error message for is essentially   the same as the example in the note. Assumed people would have access to the note.
The statement is:
variable foo varchar2(20);
declare foo varchar2(20) := 'ken_foo';
begin
dbms_advisor.tune_mview(:foo,
'create materialized view ken_foo
as
select 
papf.rowid R_papf,
paaf.rowid R_paaf,
gcc.rowid R_gcc,
papf.employee_number,
gcc.segment4 cost_center
from hr.per_all_people_f@atc_pp_to_ebs_atcllc papf,
     hr.per_all_assignments_f@atc_pp_to_ebs_atcllc paaf,
     gl.gl_code_combinations@atc_pp_to_ebs_atcllc gcc
where papf.person_id = paaf.person_id
--and trunc(sysdate) between papf.effective_start_date and papf.effective_end_date
--and trunc(sysdate) between paaf.effective_start_date and paaf.effective_end_date
and paaf.default_code_comb_id = gcc.code_combination_id');
end;
Per another forum the answer appears to be that sys didn’t have the advisor privilege.
Granted advisor to sys and ran the statement again as soauser and no error.
Thanks
Ken