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Accessing a Table with a Registered Schema in A Different User Schema Fails ORA-00942 (Doc ID 361577.1)

Last updated on APRIL 12, 2022

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 9.2.0.3 to 10.2.0.2 [Release 9.2 to 10.2]
Information in this document applies to any platform.
XML DB

 

Symptoms

Accessing a table, associated with a registered XML schema, that resides in another user's schema fails with error:

For example:

connect user1/user1;

grant select on categories to user2;

connect user2/user2;

CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW v_category (
CATEGORY, CATEGORY_NAME) AS SELECT
extractValue(value(cats),'category/@name')
FROM categories c;

ERROR at line 3:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist 
 

Changes

The CATEGORIES table is a table that is associated with a registered schema.  The CATEGORIES table exists in the user1 schema.

User 2 has already been granted permissions to select on the CATEGORIES table.

Cause

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