I have a table with a blob column. I granted another user with full privileges against that table and defined a synonym for that user for that table. If I run a perl DBI when I'm the 2nd user and use the synonym to specify that table and try query against the blob I get a DBD::Oracle::st execute failed: ORA-04043: object blobtest does not exist (DBD SUCCESS: OCIDescribeAny/LOB refetch) at yankblobl.pl line 35. execute: ORA-04043: object blobtest does not exist (DBD SUCCESS: OCIDescribeAny/LOB refetch) at yankblobl.pl line 35. When I fully specify the table it works. However, due to various constraints fully specifying the tables will not work for me. The query works fine in SQLPLUS using PL/SQL. Any ideas? Any ideas? Thanks. -- Jeff Thompson | Phone: (515)956-9277 Senior Database Administrator | email: jeff.thompson@e-markets.com "vivendo immo moriendo et damnando fit theologus, non intelligendo legendo aut speculando". (Luther)