20 Sep
ORA-04043 in mount mode
There was a question at the OTN Database-General forum today about a problem when trying to describe the view dba_tablespaces.
The poster was getting an ORA-04043 error.
SQL> desc dba_tablespaces
ERROR:
ORA-04043: object dba_tablespaces does not exist
The first thing I thought about this was that the instance might have been in mount mode. I tried it on a database in mount stage and I got the