Re: Fav. Urban Legend...take two

I hate to perpetuate a legend, but I THINK there was an early version where 'delete any table' was good enough. I seem to remember a period where there was a big fuss from people saying "I've upgraded to version 7.0.16-ish and my truncates are not longer working" - and the problem was that they had granted 'delete any table' and the upgrade required 'drop any table'.

I also have a vague memory of seeing a release note (readme.doc) which highlighted this issue.

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-----Original Message-----
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Date: 14 March 2002 21:26

|the docs are (finally) correct.
|
|you have ALWAYS needed "drop any table" to truncate someone else's
|table. The docs have always said you needed "delete any table". Docs
|(horrors! impossible to believe!) were wrong
|

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