SYS/SYSTEM Users and ORA-01031 (Prior to Oracle 9.2)

SYS and SYSTEM users have DBA roles so they manipulate any object on database, but if you are using an Oracle DB prior to 9.2, you’ll see that DBA role is not enough to manipulate the privileges of other users’ objects.

Because before Oracle 9.2, there was not a system privilege called “GRANT ANY OBJECT PRIVILEGE”. For example, you can not run the following query on Oracle 8i (even with SYS):

Here’s a trick to overcome this problem: We create a temporary procedure under the target schema:

After we grant the required privileges, we can drop the procedure:

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ASP, ADODB and ORA-01013

One of our software developers told me that there’s a problem with database server, and they get ORA-01013 while trying to fetch data from a web page (using ASP). Although ORA-01013 error is related with client side, I checked the database and saw that everything is OK.

So I started to examine the web page with the developer. The page was executing a query which takes 1 minute to return the result. I noticed that they got the error after 30 seconds, so I wanted to check the timeout settings of IIS (Internet Information Services – Application server of Microsoft). We see that the timeout was 10 minutes. I examined the connection strings and see that ConnectionTimeout value of ADODB was set to 900. These settings look OK but the error was still there.

In almost every case, DBAs are expected to know to handle all kind of database connection problems, even if the problem is related with programming. After reading the documents of ADODB, I noticed that there’s a paramtere called “CommandTimeout”. So the developer added the following line and the problem is solved:

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