How to grant privileges on V$ tables??
15/06/2013 1 Comment
Hi Data lovers,
I was testing something in my 18.104.22.168 database today and as part of that i created a user and he needs select on some of the v$views.
i tried granting privileges directly through the below command
SQL> grant select on v$archived_log to csm;
grant select on v$archived_log to csm
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-02030: can only select from fixed tables/views
The error message looks so weird for me. The “V$” are not views really?
After going through the documentation i found a fact that they’re called as views while referring to them but they’re actually synonyms. So the error message is legitimate but not weird as i thought.
So i accomplished my purpose by doing this
SQL> grant select on v_$archived_log to csm;
What’s this “V_$” thing? The actual V$ views have the names like V_$ARCHIVED_LOG, V_$SESSION etc…the V$ representation is just a synonym of the original view.
So grants on the original view solved the problem.
p.s. I’m still not sure why Oracle has synonyms with these names instead of just leaving the view names intact and publishing them tot the world…Then we might be calling them as V_$ views instead of v$ views…Any historical reason, probably