In case you do not want to grant a user access to data dictionary tables like DBA_TABLES, but will let user B see the list of all tables belonging to user A, you can work around it with a pipelined function in schema A:

When I had my first Oracle DBA course some years before the start of this millennium I made a special mental note about a very common error message, ORA-00942, “table or view does not exist”.

At UKOUG Tech conference in Liverpool last year I had an interesting talk with a DBA that had two years of experience. Being 23 years the DBA naturally stood out from the crowd. I talked about my thoughts on what is important for a DBA, and since I spend way too much on user group activities and conferences I argued that going to such events are useful for a DBA, and continued with other ramblings about what I think is important for a DBA to do. I hope I stopped soon enough, but stop talking and…

You know, this is my blog, but I am aware of my role in our user group. The opinions here are mine; I haven’t stolen them. Selecting abstracts for our conference is done by many in our board, but I wanted to clarify how I look at the task, what speakers I look for to our conference.

Of course there is nothing special about restoring a database from the cloud on your own down-on-earth server, but it helps making this post cool and cloudy.

In our user group OUGN we used to collect abstracts for our annual conference with a simple Google Form.

In case you are using the DBMS_LDAP package from a reasonable modern environment you may run into the error:

Vårens store høydepunkt er OUGN sitt vårseminar. Her er programmet og her kan du melde deg på. Drar du til Oslo for å delta på konferansen anbefaler jeg at du flyr inn dagen før for å bli med på et annet stort høydepunkt, nemlig et dagskurs med Cary Millsap i Oslo.

OSL - CPH - SFO. Starting on my route in a few hours. Really look forward to see tweeps and a bunch of people from the worldwide Oracle community. Lots of good presentations of course, but also bloggers' meetup, Oaktable world, RAC Attack, Anchor Steam, and more.