A: Not necessarily. Actually, we recommend that, instead of the DBA role, you grant discrete privileges; that grants everything! Within Toad, we try to use USER_ and/or ALL_ where possible, but a few things like tablespaces only offer DBA_ views. In those cases, all you would need is the SELECT_ANY_CATLOG role.
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