Oracle tools security permissions

This document explains the security permissions required for all three Oracle Tools:

  • Schema Compare for Oracle
  • Data Compare for Oracle
  • Source Control for Oracle

The basic security permissions are described in this article:

Permissions required to use Schema Compare for Oracle

However, users may experience an Oracle error ORA-00942 when attempting to perform a comparison that indicates that a Table or View does not exist.  This may indicate that the user account specified to connect to the Oracle database does not have security permissions to read the Oracle Data Dictionary and other system objects.

When performing a comparison, the comparison engine queries a number of Data Dictionaries.  It will first attempt to connect using dba_<data dictionary name>, for example dba_tables.  If this fails, the comparison engine automatically switches to use the all_<data dictionary name>, for example all_tables.

Below is a list off all data dictionary views (or their all_ equivalents) that the comparison engine requires security privileges for:

dba_attribute_transformations

dba_clu_columns

dba_cluster_hash_expressions

dba_clustering_dimensions

dba_clustering_keys

dba_clustering_tables

dba_col_comments

dba_col_privs

dba_cons_columns

dba_cons_obj_columns

dba_constraints

dba_db_links

dba_dependencies

dba_du_columns

dba_external_locations

dba_external_tables

dba_ind_columns

dba_ind_partitions

dba_ind_subpartitions

dba_indexes

dba_indextype_comments

dba_indextype_operators

dba_indextypes

dba_join_ind_columns

dba_lob_partitions

dba_lob_subpartitions

dba_lobs

dba_log_group_columns

dba_log_groups

dba_mview_comments

dba_mview_logs

dba_mviews

dba_nested_table_cols

dba_nested_tables

dba_obj_colattrs

dba_objects

dba_opancillary

dba_oparguments

dba_opbindings

dba_operator_comments

dba_operators

dba_part_indexes

dba_part_key_columns

dba_part_tables

dba_queue_subscribers

dba_queue_tables

dba_queues

dba_refs

dba_role_privs

dba_sequences

dba_snapshots

dba_source

dba_subpart_key_columns

dba_subpartition_templates

dba_synonyms

dba_sys_privs

dba_tab_cols

dba_tab_comments

dba_tab_partitions

dba_tab_privs

dba_tab_subpartitions

dba_tables

dba_triggers

dba_types

dba_users

dba_varrays

dba_views

 

The comparison engine will query the following system tables, for example the sys.snap$ table is used to obtain information on the Materialized Views Reduced Precisions:

all_users

m_owners

sys_ilm$

sys_ilmobjects

sys.objects$

sys.snap$

sys.sys_fba_period

sys.tab$

If after granting select on all_objects to your user or signing in as a different (perhaps dba) user you still get the same problem you may have to check your user’s access to each of these.

Reviewing the verbose log file, you will be able to locate the query experiencing the ORA-00942 and identify the problem Data Dictionary or system table. 

 

Was this article helpful?

0 out of 1 found this helpful
Have more questions? Submit a request