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ORA-20000 'Insufficient Privileges' While Executing DBMS_STATS.GATHER_SCHEMA_STATS (Doc ID 309834.1)

Last updated on MAY 19, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

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ORA-20000 while executing "dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats" is dumped while trying to generate statistics.

Example of the error:

Connect as user <user_name>

User <user_name> has DBA role granted.

DBA role includes "analyze any" system privilege.

Also granted "analyze any" privilege explicitly to user <user_name>.

SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats('SCOTT',degree=>4,cascade=>TRUE,estimate_percent=>35);
BEGIN dbms_stats.gather_schema_stats('SCOTT',degree=>4,cascade=>TRUE,estimate_percent=>35); END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-20000: Insufficient privileges to analyze an object in Schema
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 10583
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 10751
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 10805
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 10782
ORA-06512: at line 1

 

Cause

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