Question : schema level privs

In oracle, is there a way to grant schema level privs

Creating a role and assign update, delete ... etc of individul tables of a schema  to the role will work

Since there are hundreds of tables in the schema, is there a schem-level priv available in later version of oracle , 10.2

Answer : schema level privs

From 10.2's docs: http://download-east.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14231/secure.htm#i1007742

Notice that System privileges span the entire database, not a specific schema...