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Managing Users
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Objectives
After completing this lesson, you should be able to do
the following:
Create new database users
Alter and drop existing database users
Monitor information about existing users
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Account
locking
Tablespace
quotas
Temporary
tablespace
Default
tablespace
Role
privileges

Resource
limits
Security
domain
Direct
privileges
Authentication
mechanism
Users and Security
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Database Schema
















Schema Objects
Tables
Triggers
Constraints
Indexes
Views
Sequences
Stored program units
Synonyms
User-defined data types
Database links
A schema is a named
collection of objects.
A user is created, and a
corresponding schema
is created.
A user can be
associated only with
one schema.
Username and schema
are often used
interchangeably.
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Checklist for Creating Users

Identify tablespaces in which the user needs to
store objects.
Decide on quotas for each tablespace.
Assign a default tablespace and temporary
tablespace.
Create a user.
Grant privileges and roles to the user.
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Creating a New User:
Database Authentication

Set the initial password:
CREATE USER aaron
IDENTIFIED BY soccer
DEFAULT TABLESPACE data
DEFAULT TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp
QUOTA 15M ON data
QUOTA 10M ON users
PASSWORD EXPIRE;
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Creating a New User:
Operating System Authentication

The OS_AUTHENT_PREFIX initialization parameter
specifies the format of the usernames.
Defaults to OPS$.
CREATE USER aaron
IDENTIFIED EXTERNALLY
DEFAULT TABLESPACE USERS
TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp
QUOTA 15m ON data
PASSWORD EXPIRE;
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Changing User Quota on Tablespaces
ALTER USER aaron
QUOTA 0 ON USERS;
A users tablespace quotas may be modified for any
the following situations:
Tables owned by a user exhibit unanticipated
growth.
An application is enhanced and requires
additional tables or indexes.
Objects are reorganized and placed in different
tablespaces.
To modify a users tablespace quota:
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Dropping a User
Use the CASCADE clause to drop all objects in the
schema if the schema contains objects.


Users who are currently connected to the Oracle
server cannot be dropped.





















DROP USER aaron;
DROP USER aaron CASCADE;
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Obtaining User Information
Information about users can be obtained by querying
the following views:
DBA_USERS
DBA_TS_QUOTAS
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Summary
In this lesson, you should have learned how to:
Create users by specifying the appropriate
password mechanism
Control usage of space by users

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Practice 15 Overview
This practice covers the following topics:
Creating users
Displaying data dictionary information about users
Removing user quotas
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