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Oracle SQL and PL/SQL Handbook: A Guide for Data Administrators, Developers, and Business Analysts
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Oracle SQL and PL/SQL Handbook: A Guide for Data Administrators, Developers, and Business Analysts

by John Adolph Palinski
August 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
528 pages
10h 12m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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Creating User Accounts

Before the database can be used, a user account must be created and be granted privileges. Examples of privileges are the ability to establish an Oracle session, the ability to create database objects (e.g., tables, synonyms), or the ability to modify data that another user account owns. User accounts are also used to denote the owner of a database object.

When Oracle is first installed, two default accounts are created: SYS and SYSTEM. If you have just installed Oracle, you will be interested in the SYSTEM account, the default ID for which is manager. This is an account that has the privileges to create other user accounts and to create many of the needed database objects. This account also has the ability to grant and ...

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