Re: strange problem

[Glen Mitchell]

When using sqlplus to do the select you are most probably using the privileges that have been assigned to you in a role.  Privileges assigned to a user through a role are not used (or applied) inside PL/SQL blocks (procedures/functions).  You need to have the appropriate privilege explicitly granted to the user who is executing the procedure/function.  In your case you will need to explicitly grant select on the v$session view (or base table, sys.v_$session) to the user account that is executing the procedure.

Glen

Narender Akula wrote:

hi gurus,
I am able to select from every hting from v$session at command line.
but when i write in procedure it fails .... why.

SQL> select osuser from v$session where username = 'IMAGE_INDEX' and rownum
= 1;

OSUSER
------------------------------
MLOBO
this is ok...

CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE n2 IS
tmpVar varchar2(100);
BEGIN
select osuser into tmpvar from v$session where username = 'MLOBO'
and rownum = 1;
dbms_output.put_line ('name '||tmpvar);
   EXCEPTION
     WHEN NO_DATA_FOUND THEN
       Null;
     WHEN OTHERS THEN
       Null;
END n2;

this  is failing says sys.V_$session must be declared.
what could be reason ?

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