ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

When calling a table directly or through procedure/function...etc user may receive error “ORA-00942: table or view does not exist”.

For ex:-
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION PROC1
(Num IN NUMBER)
RETURN NUMBER
IS
BEGIN
INSERT INTO Table1 SELECT * FROM SCOTT.Table2 WHERE ID = Num;
END;

PL/SQL: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

SQL> select * from table1;

select * from table1

              *

ERROR at line 1:

ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

Possible reasons:
1. The table name or view name spelled wrongly
2. The table or view doesn’t exist
3. The user doesn’t have required permissions

In some cases users have select access and able to query data but when running from a procedure they still receive “ORA-00942: table or view does not exist”

The reason for this error is the access granted trough a ROLE not directly. In order to access another user table from a procedure you need to have SELECT privilege granted directly.

Regards,

Satishbabu Gunukula, Oracle ACE

http://www.oracleracexpert.com