ORA-20171: Workspace Error during BEGIN DDL

SQL > exec dbms_wm.beginddl('TABLE_NAME');

ORA-20171: WM error: 'CREATE TABLE' and 'CREATE SEQUENCE' privileges needed.


This error can be avoided by giving these below  grants to the particular user.

SQL > grant create TABLE  to username ;

SQL >  grant create SEQUENCE  to username;

Then execute the script ;it will be successful

SQL > exec dbms_wm.beginddl('TABLE_NAME');


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ORA-20104: cannot version disable this table

ORA-20104: cannot version disable this table
ORA-06512: at "SYS.LT", line 9152
ORA-06512: at line 3

the following error will occur if the TESTP table is a parent table and all the child table that refers TESTP is not versiondisabled .  

 An Example

create table TEST (ee number(10),fg varchar2(100)) ;

ALTER TABLE TEST ADD CONSTRAINT TEST_PK PRIMARY KEY (EE);

create table TESTP (ff number(10),ee number(10) ,constraint fk_fg foreign key(ee) references TEST(ee) );

ALTER TABLE TESTP ADD CONSTRAINT TESTp_PK PRIMARY KEY (ff);

execute dbms_wm.enableversioning('TEST');

execute dbms_wm.enableversioning('TESTP');

execute dbms_wm.disableversioning('TESTP');  This will result an error ( ORA-20104: cannot version disable this table )

to avoid this first you should disableversion child table  TEST and then parent table TESTP

execute dbms_wm.disableversioning('TEST');

execute dbms_wm.disableversioning('TESTP');