Question

Currently, playing around with Oracle DB 11g on Windows XP. Logged in as scott user (not sysdba) with granted DBA role. According to Oracle docs “DBA = All system privileges WITH ADMIN OPTION”. Why then creation of a new user gives error “ORA-01031 insufficient privileges…”? Here’s DDL command executed using SQL Developer:

CREATE USER john identified by 123

Answer 1

Check out document for SET ROLE and default role

To enable all roles granted to you for the current session, issue the following statement:

SET ROLE ALL;

Or modify user default role

ALTER USER scott DEFAULT ROLE ALL;