In Oracle, you can only control read/write capability for an entire tablespace, not for a single table within a tablespace. So, if you want all the tables in a tablespace to be read-only, use the following command:
ALTER TABLESPACE <tablespace_name> READ ONLY;
To reverse the change and set all the tables in the tablespace back to read-write mode, use this code:
ALTER TABLESPACE <tablespace_name> READ WRITE;
Despite that limitation, you can simulate a read-only table by simply preventing all table modifications using a trigger. To do that, create a trigger as follows.
SQL> create or replace trigger emp_sal_read_only
2 before insert or update or delete
3 on emp_sal_tbl
4 begin
5 raise_application_error (-20001, 'Table EMP_SAL_TBL is read only,
You cannot make changes to the data.');
6 end;
7 /
Trigger created.
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