Passwords are Case Sensitive in Oracle11g

The passwords in Oracle11g are case sensitive. All new users created in the 11g database have case sensitive password by default. For databases upgraded from earlier releases, the passwords are not case sensitive for existing accounts. They become case sensitive when you change password. A new column PASSWORD_VERSIONS is added to DBA_USERS view. A value … Read more

Read Only Tables [Orig Published Apr 2000]

In Oracle (all versions including 10g) you can make a tablespace read only, but not a single table. To make a table read only, you need to have that table in its own tablespace. If the tablespace has many tables, then you can either make all the tables read only or not. For large or … Read more