I'll guess the same and say "ITS ABOUT TIME!"
How simple would it have been for Oracle to enforce this in the past! I
think it's a great idea!
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
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ok i'll guess, so newbies dont shoot themselves in the foot? :)
joe
Brian McGraw wrote:
>
> Disclaimer: This is more of a 'yeah, but why?' type of question.
> You've been forewarned.
>
> Today I was building out a test schema, and had connected as the SYS
> user to do so. The testing has to do with using different FREELIST /
> FREELIST GROUPS values. After creating my table, I was executing the
> following create index statement:
>
> ALTER TABLE "INQUIRY"."TSR_DETAILS"
> ADD CONSTRAINT "TSR_PK" PRIMARY KEY
> ("POLICY_NUMBER", "POLICY_SUFFIX", "ENTRY_DATE")
> USING INDEX PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 4 MAXTRANS 255
> STORAGE(INITIAL 1m next 1m minextents 1 maxextents unlimited
> pctincrease 0 freelists 4 freelist groups 2)
> TABLESPACE "INQUIRY_INDEX" ENABLE ;
>
> I got the following error, which I had never seen before:
>
> ERROR at line 5:
> ORA-02001: user SYS is not permitted to create indexes with
> freelist groups
>
> Metalink had the following to say:
>
> Error: ORA 2001
> Text: user SYS is not permitted to create indexes with freelist
> groups
>
>
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>
> Cause: user tried to create an index with freelist groups while
> running with SYS authorization.
> Action: Either do not create the index, do not use freelist groups
> or
> switch to USER authorization.
>
> Support Notes:
> You should not be creating indexes as SYS without a specific
> reason.
>
> Of course, I connected as my user and finished building out the
> schema.
>
> But now I'm curious - does anybody know why Oracle advises that you
> not create indexes as SYS? I always assumed that as long as tables
> were properly prefixed with an owner, you could build out schemas
> connected as SYS or SYSTEM.
>
> Brian
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