ORA-01924: role not granted or does not exist

I got ” ORA-01924: role not granted or does not exist ”  error in Oracle database.

ORA-01924: role not granted or does not exist

Details of error are as follows.

ORA-01924: Role 'string' not granted or does not exist

Cause: Set role can only be performed with roles granted directly to your account. (e.g. a sub-role cannot be enabled)

Action: Don't try to set the role.

After upgrading, forms and pl/sql can’t see some of the roles or don’t recognize that it has 
been granted to a user’s account.


ORA-01924: role ' not granted or does not exist

This can occur when trying to set role using either DBMS_SESSION.SET_ROLE or SET ROLE on 
the 601th+ role (granted).

Role ‘string’ not granted or does not exist

This ORA-01924 is related with the Set role can only be performed with roles granted directly to your account. (e.g. a sub-role cannot be enabled).

Don’t try to set the role.

Upgrade to 11.2.0.4 or 12c.  Does not occur on 11.2.0.3

This is caused by Bug 18934948 – ORA-01924 ENCOUNTERED WHEN A USER HAS MORE THAN 600 ROLES GRANTED

Download and apply patch 18934948 to resolve this issue.

Fixed in 12.2

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