You Don’t Have to be Posh to be Privileged

Working in multiple environments, I sometimes get tripped up by the RDBMS telling me a program unit doesn’t exist when I know it does.
What with system privileges either being granted directly, or via roles, I find the following query really useful in working out just what privileges I’ve got on an environment.

SELECT distinct privilege
FROM dba_sys_privs
WHERE grantee = USER
OR grantee IN (
    SELECT granted_role
    FROM dba_role_privs
    START WITH grantee = USER
    CONNECT BY PRIOR granted_role = grantee)
ORDER BY 1 

As a SQL Developer user, I drop this into my User Defined Reports folder so it’s always handy.

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