Can GRANT be used inside an Oracle Store Procedure?

Question

When trying to place a GRANT statement in an Oracle 11 stored procedure, it reports that GRANT is an unexpected symbol. Does GRANT need to be prefaced by something, or does

Answer 1

It's a bad idea to use DDL (like GRANT) inside stored procedures.

You will have to use dynamic SQL (EXECUTE IMMEDIATE) to do this, but, honestly, I don't see why would you want to do this inside a stored proc.