The given database contains a masterdata (MD) Schema and an application specific Schema (APP). In the APP Schema we have a view which provides the applications data from one table in the scheme joined with data from the MD Schema.
Example: Think of an address book application, which holds an address table, but cities and ZIP codes are joined from a masterdata table in another Schema which is maintained centrally.
CREATE VIEW view_adress AS
SELECT app.ID, app.Street, app.ZIP, zip.CITYNAME
FROM APP.adress app
LEFT OUTER JOIN MD.zipcodes zip
ON app.ZIP = zip.ZIP
This is very simplified. The actual view I use is a lot more complicated like that and therefore I implemented an INSTEAD OF INSERT, UPDATE Trigger to map INSERTs on the view to the correct base table in my APP Schema.
The application users (role) is granted SELECT,INSERT,UPDATE,DELETE on all tables inside this APP Schema. They are also granted SELECT on that zipcode table in the master data Schema.
When I insert on that view, I get an "ORA-01720: Grant Option Does Not Exist"... I don't know the exact cause of this error, but it can be assumed that the INSTEAD-OF Trigger never INSERTS on the ZIP Code Table, only on the address table.
I understand, that granting the application users INSERT privilege on the zipcode table would probably resolve this issue, but I am feeling uncomfortable granting INSERTs on tables to users which they never should edit in any way, because these are only lookups.
Is there another, possibly "the correct way" to solve this?
By "insufficient permissions error" do you mean this?
ORA-01720: grant option does not exist for 'MD.ZIPCODES'
*Cause: A grant was being performed on a view or a view was being replaced
and the grant option was not present for an underlying object.
*Action: Obtain the grant option on all underlying objects of the view or
revoke existing grants on the view.
If so, the solution is that you need to grant the relevant permissions to the schema owning the view - not to the roles that use the view:
grant insert on md.zipcodes to app with grant option;
It's true that you are still having to grant a permission that is logically not required, but you are not granting it to users, only the app schema.
Using schemacrawler and trying to connect to an Oracle database. The resulting json file is only including about 10 tables, but we are expecting a much larger number of tables in the database.
This must be restricted by permissions of the user being used to access the Oracle database, but what permissions are required for that user for schemacrawler to be able to "see" the table/columns?
Presumably schemacrawler uses the data dictionary. So the user will be restricted to what tables and columns are visible in ALL_TAB_COLS view i.e. what tables they have at least SELECT privilege on.
Otherwise the user needs select on DBA_TAB_COLS, which shows all tables in all schemas. That requires DBA access to grant.
I would simply like to allow a colleague to view and edit the Database I've created.
I've tried:
GRANT ALL on FISHTABLE to CDEMARES;
and it returned Grant succeeded but nothing changed for him and he still wasn't able to view my table.
I also tried
GRANT SELECT smahala.fishtable to cdemares#sole.nefsc.noaa.gov;
but that failed with SQL Error: ORA_00990: missing or invalid privilege.
Is my issue that I don't have the administrative authority to allow someone else to view my Oracle table? Any advice is appreciated, thanks.
Your colleague needs to prefix your table with your schema name, otherwise Oracle doesn't know where to look for it, e.g.:
select * from smahala.fishtable
If they don't do that, and simply try to use:
select * from fishtable
then Oracle will look for the table in their own schema, and then look for a view, or a private synonym, or a public synonym. Your colleague could create a synonym if they'll be accessing this table a lot (and they don't have their own table with the same name). It's also possible to change their session's current schema, but that will make it harder to see their own objects.
You can read more about object naming and how to refer to objects in the documentation.
SQL Developer allows you to browse objects in other schemas. If your colleague was connected when you granted the permissions, they can refresh the object list, or disconnect and reconnect. Either way they should then be abke to see your table under your schema.
(Your second grant statement is missing an on, and you can't grant permissions across a database link, if that's what you're trying to do.)
I am using Oracle 11g. I am successfully extracting DDL of database using userA account who created database tables, SP, Functions etc using getddl() method.
Now here is a case userA has shared / grant some action (ie. select) to userB account. and When I tried to get DDL details using same getDDL method, it is not including that shared tables.
To resolve it I used following.
SELECT * FROM USER_TAB_PRIVS;
Statement. Using this I can get list of all shared table with some unknow system tables details.
Now I am looking for the solution which either gives only shared tables or a way using that I can ignore (filter) that tables
FYI: When I am executing the above query it gives this output.
As expected it returns data related to all tables including system tables and all users created in the database including system generated users.
So can please anyone help me to create a query which will give me data related to privileges granted to all the users created manually and not by system?
To get the list of all privileges given to USER_2 from USER_1, you can use the following query.
SELECT * FROM SYS.USER_TAB_PRIVS T WHERE T.GRANTOR = 'USER_2';
What is the difference between a user and a schema in Oracle?
From Ask Tom
You should consider a schema to be the user account and collection of all objects therein
as a schema for all intents and purposes.
SCOTT is a schema that includes the EMP, DEPT and BONUS tables with various grants, and
other stuff.
SYS is a schema that includes tons of tables, views, grants, etc etc etc.
SYSTEM is a schema.....
Technically -- A schema is the set of metadata (data dictionary) used by the database,
typically generated using DDL. A schema defines attributes of the database, such as
tables, columns, and properties. A database schema is a description of the data in a
database.
I believe the problem is that Oracle uses the term schema slightly differently from what it generally means.
Oracle's schema (as explained in Nebakanezer's answer): basically the set of all tables and other objects owned by a user account, so roughly equivalent to a user account
Schema in general: The set of all tables, sprocs etc. that make up the database for a given system / application (as in "Developers should discuss with the DBAs about the schema for our new application.")
Schema in sense 2. is similar, but not the same as schema in sense 1. E.g. for an application that uses several DB accounts, a schema in sense 2 might consist of several Oracle schemas :-).
Plus schema can also mean a bunch of other, fairly unrelated things in other contexts (e.g. in mathematics).
Oracle should just have used a term like "userarea" or "accountobjects", instead of overloadin "schema"...
From WikiAnswers:
A schema is collection of database objects, including logical structures such as tables, views, sequences, stored procedures, synonyms, indexes, clusters, and database links.
A user owns a schema.
A user and a schema have the same name.
The CREATE USER command creates a user. It also automatically creates a schema for that user.
The CREATE SCHEMA command does not create a "schema" as it implies, it just allows you to create multiple tables and views and perform multiple grants in your own schema in a single transaction.
For all intents and purposes you can consider a user to be a schema and a schema to be a user.
Furthermore, a user can access objects in schemas other than their own, if they have permission to do so.
Think of a user as you normally do (username/password with access to log in and access some objects in the system) and a schema as the database version of a user's home directory. User "foo" generally creates things under schema "foo" for example, if user "foo" creates or refers to table "bar" then Oracle will assume that the user means "foo.bar".
This answer does not define the difference between an owner and schema but I think it adds to the discussion.
In my little world of thinking:
I have struggled with the idea that I create N number of users where I want each of these users to "consume" (aka, use) a single schema.
Tim at oracle-base.com shows how to do this (have N number of users and each of these users will be "redirected" to a single schema.
He has a second "synonym" approach (not listed here). I am only quoting the CURRENT_SCHEMA version (one of his approaches) here:
CURRENT_SCHEMA Approach
This method uses the CURRENT_SCHEMA session attribute to automatically
point application users to the correct schema.
First, we create the schema owner and an application user.
CONN sys/password AS SYSDBA
-- Remove existing users and roles with the same names.
DROP USER schema_owner CASCADE;
DROP USER app_user CASCADE;
DROP ROLE schema_rw_role;
DROP ROLE schema_ro_role;
-- Schema owner.
CREATE USER schema_owner IDENTIFIED BY password
DEFAULT TABLESPACE users
TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp
QUOTA UNLIMITED ON users;
GRANT CONNECT, CREATE TABLE TO schema_owner;
-- Application user.
CREATE USER app_user IDENTIFIED BY password
DEFAULT TABLESPACE users
TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp;
GRANT CONNECT TO app_user;
Notice that the application user can connect, but does not have any
tablespace quotas or privileges to create objects.
Next, we create some roles to allow read-write and read-only access.
CREATE ROLE schema_rw_role;
CREATE ROLE schema_ro_role;
We want to give our application user read-write access to the schema
objects, so we grant the relevant role.
GRANT schema_rw_role TO app_user;
We need to make sure the application user has its default schema
pointing to the schema owner, so we create an AFTER LOGON trigger to
do this for us.
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER app_user.after_logon_trg
AFTER LOGON ON app_user.SCHEMA
BEGIN
DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO.set_module(USER, 'Initialized');
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'ALTER SESSION SET current_schema=SCHEMA_OWNER';
END;
/
Now we are ready to create an object in the schema owner.
CONN schema_owner/password
CREATE TABLE test_tab (
id NUMBER,
description VARCHAR2(50),
CONSTRAINT test_tab_pk PRIMARY KEY (id)
);
GRANT SELECT ON test_tab TO schema_ro_role;
GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON test_tab TO schema_rw_role;
Notice how the privileges are granted to the relevant roles. Without
this, the objects would not be visible to the application user. We now
have a functioning schema owner and application user.
SQL> CONN app_user/password
Connected.
SQL> DESC test_tab
Name Null? Type
----------------------------------------------------- -------- ------------------------------------
ID NOT NULL NUMBER
DESCRIPTION VARCHAR2(50)
SQL>
This method is ideal where the application user is simply an
alternative entry point to the main schema, requiring no objects of
its own.
It's very simple.
If USER has OBJECTS
then call it SCHEMA
else
call it USER
end if;
A user may be given access to schema objects owned by different Users.
Schema is an encapsulation of DB.objects about an idea/domain of intrest, and owned by ONE user. It then will be shared by other users/applications with suppressed roles. So users need not own a schema, but a schema needs to have an owner.
--USER and SCHEMA
The both words user and schema are interchangeble,thats why most people get confusion on this words below i explained the difference between them
--User User is a account to connect database(Server). we can create user by using CREATE USER user_name IDENTIFIED BY password .
--Schema
Actually Oracle Database contain logical and physical strucutre to process the data.The Schema Also Logical Structure to process the data in Database(Memory Component). Its Created automatically by oracle when user created.It Contains All Objects created by the user associated to that schema.For Example if i created a user with name santhosh then oracle createts a schema called santhosh,oracle stores all objects created by user santhosh in santhosh schema.
We can create schema by CREATE SCHEMA statement ,but Oracle Automatically create a user for that schema.
We can Drop the schema by using DROP SCHEMA schama_name RESTRICT statement but it can not delete scehema contains objects,so to drop schema it must be empty.here the restrict word forcely specify that schema with out objects.
If we try to drop a user contain objects in his schema we must specify CASCADE word because oracle does not allow you to delete user contain objects.
DROP USER user_name CASCADE
so oracle deletes the objects in schema and then it drops the user automatically,Objects refered to this schema objects from other schema like views and private synonyms goes to invalid state.
I hope now you got the difference between them,if you have any doubts on this topic,please feel free to ask.
Thank you.
A user account is like relatives who holds a key to your home, but does not own anything i.e. a user account does not own any database object...no data dictionary...
Whereas a schema is an encapsulation of database objects. It's like the owner of the house who owns everything in your house and a user account will be able to access the goods at the home only when the owner i.e. schema gives needed grants to it.
A schema and database users are same but if schema has owned database objects and they can do anything their object but user just access the objects, They can't DO any DDL operations until schema user give you the proper privileges.
Based on my little knowledge of Oracle... a USER and a SCHEMA are somewhat similar. But there is also a major difference. A USER can be called a SCHEMA if the "USER" owns any object, otherwise ... it will only remain a "USER". Once the USER owns at least one object then by virtue of all of your definitions above.... the USER can now be called a SCHEMA.
User: Access to resource of the database. Like a key to enter a house.
Schema: Collection of information about database objects. Like Index in your book which contains the short information about the chapter.
Look here for details
For most of the people who are more familiar with MariaDB or MySQL this seems little confusing because in MariaDB or MySQL they have different schemas (which includes different tables, view , PLSQL blocks and DB objects etc) and USERS are the accounts which can access those schema. Therefore no specific user can belong to any particular schema. The permission has be to given to that Schema then the user can access it. The Users and Schema is separated in databases like MySQL and MariaDB.
In Oracle schema and users are almost treated as same. To work with that schema you need to have the permission which is where you will feel that the schema name is nothing but user name. Permissions can be given across schemas to access different database objects from different schema. In oracle we can say that a user owns a schema because when you create a user you create DB objects for it and vice a versa.
Schema is a container of objects.
It is owned by a user.
Well, I read somewhere that if your database user has the DDL privileges then it's a schema, else it's a user.