ORA-20000: Insufficient privileges to Analyze an object in Schema during Gather DBMS_STATS

Hi,

Sometimes You can get ”  ORA-20000: Insufficient privileges to Analyze an object in Schema  ” error during Gather DBMS_STATS Database, Schema, Table and Dictionary Stats.

ORA-20000: Insufficient privileges

Details of error are as follows.

ORA-20000: Insufficient privileges to analyze an object in Schema

ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 13578

ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 13937

ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 14015

ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_STATS", line 13974

ORA-06512: at line 1

ORA-20000: Insufficient privileges to Analyze an object in Schema

When you start the gather stats job without sys user ( sysdba priviliges ), you can get this error.

To solve this error, you should grant ANALYZE ANY DICTIONARY,ANALYZE ANY priviliged to the the related user as follows.

grant ANALYZE ANY DICTIONARY to MSDBA;

grant ANALYZE ANY to MSDBA;

Grant SELECT ANY TABLE to MSDBA;

Gather DBMS_STATS

BEGIN
DBMS_STATS.GATHER_FIXED_OBJECTS_STATS;
END;
/

BEGIN
DBMS_STATS.gather_dictionary_stats;
END;
/

You can gather any schema stats as follows.

BEGIN
DBMS_STATS.gather_schema_stats('MSDBA',estimate_percent => dbms_stats.auto_sample_size, degree=>96);
END;
/

You can gather any table stats as follows.

BEGIN
DBMS_STATS.gather_table_stats(ownname='MSDBA',tabname='TEST_TABLE', estimate_percent=> dbms_stats.auto_sample_size, degree=>8 );
END;
/

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