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Toad for Oracle Unleashed
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Toad for Oracle Unleashed

by Bert Scalzo, Dan Hotka
July 2015
Intermediate to advanced
288 pages
7h 26m
English
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Toad versus Database Security

Probably the most frequent question asked by shops new to Toad is “Will Toad enable my developers or business analysts to do things in the database that they’re not permitted to do?” Because Toad is so easy to use and so powerful, some fear that it might allow users to do bad things—like drop a production table or delete all of its data.

The simple answer is “definitely not,” because Toad cannot override or supersede Oracle’s inherent security. A Toad user has only whatever roles, system privileges, or object grants exist for the user he or she connects as. Thus users can do no more in Toad than they could in SQL*Plus (they simply can do it more easily and faster via Toad). To reiterate, Toad permits database users ...

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