Dropping Users Making Read-Only Tables Managing Default Users Marking Architectural Decisions NVARCHAR2 and NCHAR Oracle Certification
ROWID- Tables and Constraints
When DBAs hear the word ROWID (row identifier), they often think of a pseudocolumn provided with every table row that contains the physical location of the row on disk; that is correct. However, many DBAs do not realize that Oracle supports an actual ROWID data type, meaning that you can create a table with a […]Understanding Table Types- Tables and Constraints
The Oracle database supports a vast and robust variety of table types. These various types are described in Table 7-1. Table 7-1. Oracle Table Type Descriptions This chapter focuses on the table types that are most often used: heap organized, index organized, and temporary tables. Partitioned tables are used extensively in data warehouse environments and […]Managing Privileges- Users and Basic Security
A database user must be granted privileges before the user can perform any tasks in the database. In Oracle, you assign privileges either by granting a specific privilege to a user or by granting the privilege to a role and then granting the role that contains the privilege to a user. There are different types […]Assigning Default Permanent and Temporary Tablespaces- Users and Basic Security
Ensuring that users have a correct default permanent tablespace and temporary tablespace helps prevent issues of inadvertently filling up the SYSTEM or SYSAUX tablespaces, which could cause the database to become unavailable as well as create performance problems. The USERS tablespace is normally the default tablespace. When maintaining a database, you should verify the default […]
Dropping Users Making Read-Only Tables Managing Default Users Marking Architectural Decisions Oracle Certification
Understanding Schemas vs. Users- Users and Basic Security
A schema is a collection of database objects (such as tables and indexes). A user is an account to connect to the database with the username and password. Users can also own objects, which then the owner is the schema of the objects. Already discussed was how there are default schemas created to own database […]
Dropping Users Making Read-Only Tables Managing Default Users Marking Architectural Decisions NVARCHAR2 and NCHAR Oracle Certification