[oracle] Getting ORA-01031: insufficient privileges while querying a table instead of ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

When I'm querying a table in schema C from schema A, I'm getting ORA-01031: insufficient privileges and when I'm querying the same table from schema B, I'm getting ORA-00942: table or view does not exist. On the table neither of the schemas are having any privileges. Why am I getting different error messages in this case?

You may get ORA-01031: insufficient privileges instead of ORA-00942: table or view does not exist when you have at least one privilege on the table, but not the necessary privilege.

Create schemas

SQL> create user schemaA identified by schemaA;

User created.

SQL> create user schemaB identified by schemaB;

User created.

SQL> create user test_user identified by test_user;

User created.

SQL> grant connect to test_user;

Grant succeeded.

Create objects and privileges

It is unusual, but possible, to grant a schema a privilege like DELETE without granting SELECT.

SQL> create table schemaA.table1(a number);

Table created.

SQL> create table schemaB.table2(a number);

Table created.

SQL> grant delete on schemaB.table2 to test_user;

Grant succeeded.

Connect as TEST_USER and try to query the tables

This shows that having some privilege on the table changes the error message.

SQL> select * from schemaA.table1;
select * from schemaA.table1
                      *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist


SQL> select * from schemaB.table2;
select * from schemaB.table2
                      *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges


SQL>

ORA-01031: insufficient privileges happens when the object exists in the schema but do not have any access to that object.

ORA-00942: table or view does not exist happens when the object does not exist in the current schema. If the object exists in another schema, you need to access it using .. Still you can get insufficient privileges error if the owner has not given access to the calling schema.

for ORA-01031: insufficient privileges. Some of the more common causes are:

1. You tried to change an Oracle username or password without having the appropriate privileges.
2. You tried to perform an UPDATE to a table, but you only have SELECT access to the table.
3. You tried to start up an Oracle database using CONNECT INTERNAL.
4. You tried to install an Oracle database without having the appropriate privileges to the operating-system.

The option(s) to resolve this Oracle error are:

1. You can have the Oracle DBA grant you the appropriate privileges that you are missing.
2. You can have the Oracle DBA execute the operation for you.
3. If you are having trouble starting up Oracle, you may need to add the Oracle user to the dba group.

For ORA-00942: table or view does not exist. You tried to execute a SQL statement that references a table or view that either does not exist, that you do not have access to, or that belongs to another schema and you didn't reference the table by the schema name.

If this error occurred because the table or view does not exist, you will need to create the table or view.

You can check to see if the table exists in Oracle by executing the following SQL statement:

select *
from all_objects
where object_type in ('TABLE','VIEW')
and object_name = 'OBJECT_NAME';

For example, if you are looking for a suppliers table, you would execute:

select *
from all_objects
where object_type in ('TABLE','VIEW')
and object_name = 'SUPPLIERS';

OPTION #2

If this error occurred because you do not have access to the table or view, you will need to have the owner of the table/view, or a DBA grant you the appropriate privileges to this object.

OPTION #3

If this error occurred because the table/view belongs to another schema and you didn't reference the table by the schema name, you will need to rewrite your SQL to include the schema name.

For example, you may have executed the following SQL statement:

select *
from suppliers;

But the suppliers table is not owned by you, but rather, it is owned by a schema called app, you could fix your SQL as follows:

select *
from app.suppliers;

If you do not know what schema the suppliers table/view belongs to, you can execute the following SQL to find out:

select owner
from all_objects
where object_type in ('TABLE','VIEW')
and object_name = 'SUPPLIERS';

This will return the schema name who owns the suppliers table.

ORA-01031: insufficient privileges Solution: Go to Your System User. then Write This Code:

SQL> grant dba to UserName; //Put This username which user show this error message.

Grant succeeded.

In SQL Developer: Everything was working fine and I had all the permissions to login and there was no password change and I could click the table and see the data tab.

But when I run query (simple select statement) it was showing "ORA-01031: insufficient privileges" message.

The solution is simply disconnect the connection and reconnect. Note: only doing Reconnect did not work for me. SQL Developer Disconnect Snapshot