Comments on: When errors tell you absolutely nothing!

By: Bruce

Bruce — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:12:51 +0000

I got the ORA-20000 while trying to run gather_fixed_object_stats too, only I got it on a dev instance that we have had up and running for over a year, and it has a temp file.

But when I ran gather_table_stats on sys.source$, it didn’t generate the error.

I’m still searching for answers.

SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_fixed_objects_stats(‘ALL’);
BEGIN dbms_stats.gather_fixed_objects_stats(‘ALL’); END;

*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-20000: Insufficient privileges to analyze an object in Fixed Ob
ORA-06512: at “SYS.DBMS_STATS”, line 13323
ORA-06512: at “SYS.DBMS_STATS”, line 13637
ORA-06512: at “SYS.DBMS_STATS”, line 14165
ORA-06512: at line 1

SQL> show user
USER is “ADPDS_DBA”
SQL> connect / as sysdba
Connected.
SQL> begin dbms_stats.gather_table_stats(‘SYS’,'SOURCE$’); end;
2 /

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL> exec dbms_stats.gather_fixed_objects_stats(‘ALL’);
BEGIN dbms_stats.gather_fixed_objects_stats(‘ALL’); END;

By: Asad

Asad — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:52:39 +0000

how if we duplicate database from shared nfs volume. duplicate database, shutdown, and wait for green signal – when up, recover the db and open it. we could bypass temporary tablespace issue if we have ’set newname for temp/data file n’ properly in run{ } clause – right?

By: Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 22:18:02 +0000

I received the same error. However, it was during an import of a table into the database. I can’t figure out what is causing the error. The import is into an existing database that has a temp tablespace. So that can’t be it. Here is a sample:
IMP-00017: following statement failed with ORACLE error 20000:
“DECLARE SREC DBMS_STATS.STATREC; BEGIN SREC.MINVAL := NULL; SREC.MAXVAL :=”
” NULL; SREC.EAVS := 0; SREC.CHVALS := NULL; SREC.NOVALS := DBMS_STATS.NUMAR”
“RAY(0,0); SREC.BKVALS := DBMS_STATS.NUMARRAY(0,1); SREC.EPC := 2; DBMS_STAT”
“S.SET_COLUMN_STATS(NULL,’”BIB_HOLDINGS_INTERFACE”‘,’”EXTRA_NUMBER_FIELD2″‘,”
” NULL ,NULL,NULL,0,0,93895,srec,0,6); END;”
IMP-00003: ORACLE error 20000 encountered
ORA-20000: TABLE “TEMSLOAD”.”BIB_HOLDINGS_INTERFACE” does not exist or insufficient privileges
ORA-06512: at “SYS.DBMS_STATS”, line 2121
ORA-06512: at “SYS.DBMS_STATS”, line 4931
ORA-06512: at line 1
Import terminated successfully with warnings.

Any ideas as to why I would get this error?

By: Ben Prusinski

Ben Prusinski — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:22:01 +0000

Let me take a guess that the missing step is that you need to switch log file after the restore and upgrade operation, is this a correct guess?

Sorry if wrong as I have jet lag from a trip the other day.

-Ben

By: Virag Sharma

Virag Sharma — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 14:14:47 +0000

I think , temp tablespace error / message always come in alert.log
When , we upgrade database , we always keep one window open with tail -f alertSID.log. It keep informing, if any thing go wrong on DB level.

By: The Oracle Alchemist

The Oracle Alchemist — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:00:25 +0000

Gary, I agree, the ORA-20000 was definitely a tip-off to think outside the text, but at the same time, it was odd that I got not one but TWO like messages regarding permissions.

ORA-20000: Insufficient privileges to analyze an object in Dictionary Schema
ORA-20000: Unable to analyze TABLE “SYS”.”SOURCE$”, insufficient privileges or
does not exist

A substitution is possible, but two different substitutions regarding the same general issue (and both being wrong) was a stretch!

The good news is, as you’ve reminded me, I can write my own ORA-20000’s with RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR, meaning I can write my own DBMS_STATS wrapper that catches their error and inserts my more suitable one.

By: gary

gary — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:46:17 +0000

I like the ‘Please contact the internet’ bit.
I think “ORA-20000″ should set off warning bells. It’s not a built-in ORA- code with matching text, but one bodged up with a RAISE_APPLICATION_ERROR. I wonder if there’s a bit of PL/SQL in DBMS_STATS that actually trapped a useful SQL error message and substituted that one.