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Gurus,
I have a Schema APPLOWN that owns the application objects (tables,pl/sql objects,etc.). Like wise I have seperate schemas for BATCH,WEB,LOAD & DEV
The APPLDEV is the developer schema where the developer can use it for querying tables.
Now, How do I enable the developer to see the PL/SQL objects source code that are owned by APPOWN? What kind of grant am I missing for APPLDEV user?
Please help.

Answer 1

grant execute on APPOWN.procedure_name to APPOWN;Even allowing for the typo this is not necessarily the correct approach. this allows the APPDEV accounts to run the code which is different from merely seeing the source code. Bear in mind also that being granted EXECUTE on a package allows us to see the source of the package spec but not the body (this is wht pacakages are so good for security).
So the question becaomes, if the account is not allowed to execute the code why should it be allowed to see the source? For developers the answer is presumably "to understand what the code does".
The correct approach is
(1) Decent documentation. Notice that I managed to keep a straight face when I typed that
(2) having all the code in a source control repository. This is good practice anyway but does have the advantage that people can eyeball the code without changing the database privileges (which is desirable).
In the absence of those two good things the third option is for SYS to create a view like
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW appown_source AS
SELECT * FROM DBA_SOURCE
WHERE owner = 'APPOWN'
GRANT SELECT ON appown_source TO appdev
/Cheers, APC