Jon Pertwee (as the Doctor): Frontier in Space
Database security involves allowing or disallowing users from performing actions on the database and the objects within it. Oracle provides comprehensive discretionary access control. Discretionary access control regulates all user access to named objects through privileges. A privilege is permission to access a named object in a prescribed manner; for example, permission to query a table. Because privileges are granted to users at the discretion of other users, this is called discretionary security.
This chapter explains how access to Oracle is controlled. It includes:
If you are using Trusted Oracle, see the Trusted Oracle7 Server Administrator's Guide for information on database access in that environment.