October 1998
Intermediate to advanced
456 pages
12h 42m
English
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If I Had a Hammer...
Oracle provides many software tools, operating system files, and database constructs that help you protect your data. Some tools, delivered with the basic Oracle system, you are likely to use every day; others you might use only in certain environments and situations to impose a higher level of security on your system. There are also “add-on” tools you can purchase from Oracle at additional cost that provide higher levels of data protection. This section takes a quick look at the various available tools and examines what each of these tools provides for you.
What’s “Free”?
There are two particular products delivered with the basic Oracle8 product set that will help you implement better database security. They are the Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) and the Oracle Security Server (OSS) Manager.
Oracle Corporation currently delivers the OEM with the base product set. The OEM is a set of utilities which are personal computer-based and use a graphical user interface (GUI). These utilities provide a way to manage one or more of your databases from a single computer. The components of the OEM are easy to use and let you perform many of your day-to-day DBA functions either interactively or on an automatic, scheduled basis.
The OEM is delivered with Oracle8 and includes the following features:
A set of database administration tools
An event monitor you can configure to watch for specific situations within your databases
A job scheduler to perform maintenance tasks on a scheduled ...
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