Re: stopping applications connecting to a database

Sam Roberts wrote:
>
> is there any way (apart from running a reoccuring scripts ) to stop users
> from accessing the database with software such as msaccess.exe
>
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This is an idea, totally untested, but I think that with Oracle 8i a trigger on login could check the program in V$SESSION (where audsid=userenv('SESSIONID') - there is a newer function than userenv() but I belong to the old school) - likely to appear as ODBC in that case - and raise an error. But I don't know how Oracle will react.

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