RE: CREATE DATABASE LINK privilege discussion

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Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 2:53 PM
To: 'Guillermo Alan Bort'
Cc: 'Joel.Patterson_at_crowley.com'; 'oracle-l_at_freelists.org' Subject: RE: CREATE DATABASE LINK privilege discussion

I effectively slapped him with a large trout when I told him he was acting like my 14 year old after he criticized me through IM because he *assumed* I removed his privs, when in fact he missed a grant - I also felt the need to point out to him the reason his process broke was because he failed to identify the grants he needed. Needless to say, that has *not* helped the situation. Funny thing is, I've already mentioned replicating the data into both DEV & PROD so he has access to it. (We have a dev db that gets rebuilt from prod every weekend). That way the data would always exist in prod and he would always have access to it in the refreshed dev instance. Of course, that suggestion hasn't gotten any traction.

Chris Taylor
Sr. Oracle DBA
Ingram Barge Company
Nashville, TN 37205

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From: alanbort_at_gmail.com [mailto:alanbort_at_gmail.com] On Behalf Of Guillermo Alan Bort
Sent: Monday, October 31, 2011 2:41 PM
To: Taylor, Chris David
Cc: Joel.Patterson_at_crowley.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org Subject: Re: CREATE DATABASE LINK privilege discussion

Just a crazy thought, but if he ABSOLUTELY NEEDS THE DATA, you can set up some from of replication (if it's a single table AQ or Streams could work, GG if you have the license) and let him work off a replica of the data. Probably he needs a subset of tables and not the entire prod database. That way you remove the need for him to use db links, you come out as "solution oriented" and you get those dirty, dirty DB links off your prod database.

That, or slap the developer with a large trout... your call.

Cheers and HTH
Alan.-

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 4:00 PM, Taylor, Chris David <ChrisDavid.Taylor_at_ingrambarge.com<mailto:ChrisDavid.Taylor_at_ingrambarge. com>> wrote:
It's good to know that I'm not off base here. I knew that it was SOP to keep devs out of production and creating database links was typically the purview of the Administrators. Good to know that I wasn't crazy I guess.

Thanks,

Chris Taylor
Sr. Oracle DBA
Ingram Barge Company
Nashville, TN 37205

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Hmmm. This implies that he needs 'real time' data. But he is developing, and probably should be working off of 'refreshed' data, whenever that was... why can't it be old. I wouldn't think that he has to have up to the minute data to develop.

Seems like there might be more going on here than development. Maybe a little testing, verification .... something. These databases normally are refreshed with data utilizing one method or another... Everyone seems to want the latest data, normally these users run reports, but this is still dev.

The list seems to have formed a consensus around the issue, so you can take that to heart.

Joel Patterson
Database Administrator
904 727-2546<tel:904%20727-2546>

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He's using a package in the dev database to query data from production to build result sets in the dev instance which have views built on top of them.

Chris Taylor
Sr. Oracle DBA
Ingram Barge Company
Nashville, TN 37205

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If he has the password, (hence creating link), then why not just log directly in? Things would be faster and easier surely, I mean Shirley.

Joel Patterson
Database Administrator
904 727-2546<tel:904%20727-2546>

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I *KNOW*. It's killing me.

Chris Taylor
Sr. Oracle DBA
Ingram Barge Company
Nashville, TN 37205

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I cannot remember anyplace I have ever worked that did not have a policy against connecting to prod from any other database except another production database. Sometimes production connects to dev/test/accp, but never the other direction.

Joel Patterson
Database Administrator
904 727-2546<tel:904%20727-2546>

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I am curious how many of you grant your developers the 'CREATE DATABASE LINK' privilege in 10g or higher?
We have a production read-only account that is setup to provide support for troubleshooting production support issues and one of my developers (out of approximately 20 devs) created a database link from a development database to production for his application.

Now, this is fast becoming an issue and he keeps complaining that he needs that privilege and that he should be able to create as many database links as he wants - wherever he wants (for those environments he has access to including the production support ID).

We (as an organization) have been sloppy in the past in granting 'CREATE DATABASE LINK' but thankfully we have developers who normally understand that you shouldn't use it to create links to a production support id for app dev.

So how do you handle it? Is there a good document on what privs app devs should 'typically' have? A good industry standards doc or some such?

Thanks,

Chris Taylor
Sr. Oracle DBA
Ingram Barge Company
Nashville, TN 37205

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