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ORA-01031 SELECT ANY DICTIONARY System Privilege Granted Through Role Does Not Allow View Creation (Doc ID 342489.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - 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 Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
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Symptoms

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The system privilege SELECT ANY DICTIONARY  is granted to USER1 through DBA role.

USER1 attempts to create a view based upon SYS.OBJ$ table, but fails with ORA-1031 error :

SQL> create user USER1 identified by xxxxx;
User created.
SQL> grant dba to USER1;
Grant succeeded.

SQL> connect USER1/xxxxx
Connected.

SQL> create or replace view zz as select * from sys.obj$;

create or replace view zz as select * from sys.obj$
                                                   *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

Changes

 

Cause

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