Use the Role Editor to view or create roles.
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 About Roles  | 
 A Role is a set of privileges that can be assigned to or removed from a user. (Use the User Editor to create and grant or revoke roles and privileges to users.) The characteristics and usage of this database object are described in Oracle documentation.  | 
To edit roles:
Query the Oracle Data Dictionary with DBA Views. For more information, see DBA Dictionary Views.
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 From the Main Menu View Menu | Visual Object Editors | Role Editor  | 
 Open the Role Editor.  | |
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 From DB Navigator Right click on a Role object and click Open.  | 
 Open the selected Role object in the Role Editor.  |