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Oracle PL/SQL in 10 Minutes, Sams Teach Yourself
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Oracle PL/SQL in 10 Minutes, Sams Teach Yourself

by Ben Forta
September 2015
Beginner
288 pages
5h 39m
English
Sams
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Lesson 26. Managing Security

Database servers usually contain critical data, and ensuring the safety and integrity of that data requires that access control be used. In this lesson, you’ll learn about Oracle access control and user management.

Understanding Access Control

The basis of security for your Oracle server is this: Users should have appropriate access to the data they need—no more and no less. In other words, users should not have too much access to too much data.

Consider the following:

Image Most users need to read and write data from tables, but few users will ever need to be able to create and drop tables.

Some users might need to read ...

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