Title: Chapter 8 Administering User Security
Course: RITA MC - ORACLE ADMINISTRATION I > Section: Unit 3 - Database Administration I

When a user logs on to the database, following some means of identification he/
she connects to a user account. The user account defines his/her initial access
permissions and the attributes of the session. Associated with a user account is a
schema. The terms “user,” “user account,” and “schema” can often be used interchangeably in the
Oracle environment, but they are not always the same thing. A user is a person who connects to
a user account by establishing a session against the instance and logging on with the user account
name. A schema is a set of objects owned by a user account, and is described in Chapter 9.

Chapter 8 Learning Outcomes:

- Ability to Create and Manage Database User Accounts
- Ability to Grant and Revoke Privileges
- Ability to Create and Manage Roles
- Ability to Create and Manage Profiles

*Quizzes for Chapters 8 & Chapters 12 through 16 are all open until Exam 3 date.

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