DBMS_STATS failing with "ORA-20000: Unable to gather statistics concurrently, insufficient privileges" (Doc ID 1466217.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 04, 2018

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 11.2.0.2.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Getting "ORA-20000: Unable to gather statistics concurrently, insufficient privileges" error while running gather table stats on a table
Problem occurs even when using the owner of the table. For example:
Table is partitioned
'concurrent statistics gathering' is enabled

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