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What are Roles? »

Roles are named groups of related privileges that are granted to users or other roles.

What are roles?How can we implement roles? »

Roles are the easiest way to grant and manage common privileges needed by different groups of database users. Creating roles and assigning provides to roles. Assign each role to group of users. This will simplify the job of assigning privileges to individual users.

How can you enable automatic archiving? »

Shut the database Backup the database Modify/Include LOG_ARCHIVE_START_TRUE in init.ora file. Start up the database.

What are the database administrators utilities available? »

SQL * DBA - This allows DBA to monitor and control an ORACLE database. SQL * Loader - It loads data from standard operating system files (Flat files) into ORACLE database tables. Export (EXP) and Import (imp) utilities allow you to move existing data in ORACLE format to and from ORACLE database.

What is Statement Auditing? »

Statement auditing is the auditing of the powerful system privileges without regard to specifically named objects

What are the different Levels of Auditing? »

Statement Auditing, Privilege Auditing and Object Auditing.

What is Tablespace Quota? »

The collective amount of disk space available to the objects in a schema on a particular tablespace.

What are the system resources that can be controlled through Profile? »

The number of concurrent sessions the user can establish the CPU processing time available to the user’s session the CPU processing time available to a single call to ORACLE made by a SQL statement the amount of logical I/O available to the user’s session the amount of logical I/O available to a single call to [...]