Getting ORA-01031: insufficient privileges while querying a table instead of ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

Question

When I\'m querying a table in schema C from schema A, I\'m getting ORA-01031: insufficient privileges and when I\'m querying the same table from schema B, I\'m

Answer 1

ORA-01031: insufficient privileges happens when the object exists in the schema but do not have any access to that object.

ORA-00942: table or view does not exist happens when the object does not exist in the current schema. If the object exists in another schema, you need to access it using .. Still you can get insufficient privileges error if the owner has not given access to the calling schema.