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DESCRIBE and ORA-00942

edited Oct 15, 2009 10:34PM in Database Administration (MOSC) 4 commentsAnswered ✓
 I connect as user SYSTEM and try to query a user schema (US) : SELECT * FROM US.USER_TABLES; --> error ORA-00942

But, DESCRIBE US.USER_TABLES works fine.

I can understand why SELECT fails, but not why DESC succeeds.
Any explanation ?

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