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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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System Roles

Oracle comes with a number of predefined system roles:

CONNECT

Includes system privileges ALTER SESSION, CREATE CLUSTER, CREATE DATABASE LINK, CREATE SEQUENCE, CREATE SESSION, CREATE SYNONYM, CREATE TABLE, and CREATE VIEW. According to Oracle Corporation, this role is provided to provide compatability with earlier versions of Oracle and may not be supported in releases past Oracle9i.

RESOURCE

Includes system privileges CREATE CLUSTER, CREATE INDEXTYPE, CREATE OPERATOR, CREATE PROCEDURE, CREATE SEQUENCE, CREATE TABLE, CREATE TABLE, and CREATE TYPE. According to Oracle Corporation, this role is provided to provide compatability with earlier versions of Oracle and may not be supported in releases past Oracle9i.

DBA

Includes all system privileges with WITH ADMIN OPTION. According to Oracle Corporation, this role is provided to provide compatability with earlier versions of Oracle and may not be supported in releases past Oracle9i.

CREATE TYPE

Includes the CREATE TYPE, EXECUTE, EXECUTE ANY TYPE, ADMIN OPTION, and GRANT OPTION privileges. This role was dropped after Oracle8.

EXP_FULL_DATABASE

Designed to provide all the privileges necessary to perform full and incremental database exports. Includes privileges SELECT ANY TABLE, BACKUP ANY TABLE, EXECUTE ANY PROCEDURE, EXECUTE ANY TYPE, ADMINISTER RESOURCE MANAGER, and the INSERT, DELETE, and UPDATE privileges on the SYS.INCVID, SYS.INCFIL, and SYS.INCEXP tables. Also includes EXECUTE_CATALOG_ROLE and SELECT_CATALOG_ROLE roles. ...

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