How to fix the Oracle error ORA-30742: cannot grant SELECT privilege WITH HIERARCHY OPTION on this object?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-30742: cannot grant SELECT privilege WITH HIERARCHY OPTION on this object with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-30742: cannot grant SELECT privilege WITH HIERARCHY OPTION on this object

Reason for the Error ORA-30742: cannot grant SELECT privilege WITH HIERARCHY OPTION on this object

The user tried to grant SELECT privilege WITH HIERARCHY OPTION on an object that is not one of the following : object table of non final type, object view of non final type.

How to fix the Error ORA-30742: cannot grant SELECT privilege WITH HIERARCHY OPTION on this object ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Ensure that the SELECT privilege WITH HIERARCHY OPTION is granted on a valid object.