11.1. Creating User Accounts

To connect to the Oracle database, a user must have an Oracle database account, also known as a username. When you create the username, you can specify various other characteristics of the account, including a password, a profile, default tablespaces, and disk space quotas.

username

An Oracle database account identifier that, along with a password, allows a user to connect to the database.

The basic syntax to create a username is as follows:

CREATE USER user <other options>;

At a minimum, you should assign a password to the account. Passwords and the other user account options are discussed in the following sections.

11.1.1. Assigning Passwords

The password for the user account is typically assigned at the time ...

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