An example to show one cause of an "ORA-01031: insufficient privileges" error from a stored procedure (Doc ID 391087.1)

Purpose

The "ORA-01031: insufficient privileges" error is a fairly common yet misunderstood error due to how Oracle handles privileges granted directly and privileges granted via a Role in conjunction to Stored Procedures.

This Note should help illustrate the difference.

Scope

The example provided within creates two users where User1 owns a table. USER2 owns a stored procedure that attempts to Delete from the table owned by User1.

Although User2 can access the table from the SQL prompt, attempting to access the same table via a stored procedure fails with the error listed above.

Execution of the procedure fails when the privileges to the tables are granted via a Role, but works when granted directly.

Details

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