Issue/Symptom/Question

Create read-only database user to run queries

Environment

Oracle Database System Privileges

Golden

Resolution/Fix/Answer

This should be done by an Oracle Database Administrator (DBA). If you do not have one, please open up a Service Desk ticket and reference this article.

To setup a read-only database user:

1. Create the user

   create user pentaro identified by <somepassword> default tablespace users temporary tablespace temp;
   grant create session to pentaro;
   grant create synonym to pentaro;

2. Grant select on table or view in the PENTA schema to the user you created.

   grant select on <sometable> to pentaro;

3. The read-only user then creates synonyms for each table or view they want to query.

   create synonym <sometable> for penta.<sometable>;