Technical troubleshooting and more

Hi All, You may think that in order to query external table you should have only read permission on the Directory Object which sounds very reasonable.... but in some external table the definition include this part of code: ACCESS PARAMETERS         ( records delimited by newline           LOGFILE   "EXTERNAL_FILES" : 'faults.txt'       FIELDS TERMINATED BY ';'             missing FIELD values are null this definition force a write permission on the directory object.  else you will run into this error: ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout ORA-29400: data cartridge error KUP-04074: no write access to directory object EXTERNAL_FILES 29913. 00000 -  "error in executing %s callout" *Cause:    The execution of the specified callout caused an error. *Acti...