“ORA-00942 -Table or view does not exist”. This is the error get trying to reverse-engineer two table spaces in my Oracle 10g database server. Thanks to the following link. I was able to resolve this.
Nothing is wrong with Erwin or the Oracle database or it’s connections. It’s a matter of offering the right privileged user’s username/password to retrieve objects owned by a specific user.
I had setup two TNS entries, one to each server. The two users/databases I have are PBX and Clients. I was using these instead of my system user account.
This is what I did to do it wrong:
- Tools | Reverse Engineer
- Template: Option: Physical; Database: Oracle 10.x
- Set Options:
- From: Database
- Items: Default Option Set
- Tables/Views Owned By: PBX
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- I didn’t want to include Clients, although I could, because I didn’t want to combine the Clients and PBX database in to the same Erwin schema.
- All else default
- Oracle connection:
- Login: system/password
- Connect string: TNS name to connect to
Once this was all set, I repeated for the other databases and servers. Again, I wasn’t providing the username and password that had enough rights to gather details. Any special tables only available to the system user would error.