Oracle-L: RE: 'internal' role and 9i

From: Barry Deevey <barry.deevey_at_enmo.co.uk>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 07:19:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D70DB.20031118071926@fatcity.com>

This would explain why it worked when I tried it on oracle 8 then.

The developers that originally created the application left quite a while ago, so I don't think I'll be able to ask them why they did it this way. But basically you're saying that it shouldn't have been done like this and now it needs to be changed.

Not the answer I was hoping for, but at least now I know!!

Thanks for your help all.

-----Original Message-----
Mercadante, Thomas F
Sent: 18 November 2003 14:54
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Yong,

It seems to me that you are missing the point here. The real point is that you should not have granted "select on some table to internal" - ever. And a new release caught you on this mistake. And now, you have to fix it. It is not an Oracle problem, but a mis-use of an Oracle "internal" user.

What you did implies that you are running sql statements while connected as internal. Why in the world you would take this chance is beyond me - strictly a no-no.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 8:59 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Tim,

I checked v$reserved_words. At least in 9.2.0.1, INTERNAL is not in there. Oracle should address this issue.

When I trace the SQL GRANT SELECT ON SOMETABLE TO INTERNAL, it stops in parsing.

Nonetheless, it's confusing to say the least to create a role called internal.

Yong Huang

Tim Gorman <tim_at_sagelogix.com> wrote:
> Barry,
>
> Why make life difficult? It's just a role, not a data
> object referenced by applications (hopefully). Change it's
> name to something that is not a "reserved word" and move on.
> There is a list of "reserved words" in the SQL Language
> reference.
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> -Tim
>
>
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I'm attempting to import into 9.2.0.1.0 from 7.3.4 and I'm
> > getting loads of the same error:
> >
> > IMP-00017: following statement failed with ORACLE error
> > 9275:
> > "GRANT SELECT ON "DOWNLOAD_SEQ" TO "INTERNAL""
> > IMP-00003: ORACLE error 9275 encountered
> > ORA-09275: CONNECT INTERNAL is not a valid DBA connection
> >
> > I'm aware that connect internal does not exist in 9i, but
> > 'internal' is a role.
> >
> > So as a test I dropped the role, recreated it and then
> > manually tried to grant it something - The same error
> > occurred:
> > SQL> select * from dba_roles where role like 'INTER%';
> >
> > ROLE PASSWORD
> > ------------------------------ --------
> > INTERNAL NO
> >
> > SQL>
> > SQL> drop role internal;
> >
> > Role dropped.
> >
> > SQL> create role internal;
> >
> > Role created.
> >
> > SQL> GRANT SELECT ON DOWNLOAD_SEQ TO INTERNAL;
> > GRANT SELECT ON DOWNLOAD_SEQ TO INTERNAL
> > *
> > ERROR at line 1:
> > ORA-09275: CONNECT INTERNAL is not a valid DBA connection
> >
> > SQL>
> >
> > This doesn't make any sense to me. Can anybody help to
> > shed any light on this??
> >
> > TIA for any response, they're much appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Barry

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