Select privileges are required on the owning Folder and update privileges on the target Folder. Of course, but hopefully the benefits will out-weigh the learning curve. Objects, versions, and folders are presented to the developer in what is known as a Workarea . Workareas display a selection of object versions. However, they do not contain objects, they have pointers to object versions stored in the repository.
All work done on repository objects is performed in the context of a workarea.
Developers can only see, update, or delete objects if they first connect to a workarea that has pointers for those objects. At this time, there isn t a timetable as to when we will move to this release. However, once it is received 6i will be installed in a test environment. You want the query to use an index, or access a table in a certain way, but Oracle is deciding for you. Oracle hints are available because a query developer will know things about the data that the optimizer does not.