Re: Sharing Oracle users

No

Upgrade to Oracle 8 (you need to do this anyway, as 7.3.4 is going out of support soon)
, comes with connection manager, which does exactly what you are asking. Why do they want a second instance if all the users are the same?

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Tim Shute <tshute_at_nisoft.co.uk> wrote in message news:32AA3B12B79DD311B0CB006097A4426B18B479_at_ORION...
> Hi group
>
> We have an existing Oracle (7.3.4) database instance set up for a client.
> They want a new database instance (new instance NOT new schema within the
> same instance) set up to carry out a completely different function
>
> The problem is that they want to share the Oracle users that were created
in
> the first database, allowing them to log onto the new database instance.
>
> Can it be done? If yes, then how?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> --
> Tim Shute
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> NiSoft (UK) Limited
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>
> Monday 6 March 2000
>
> NiSoft Asia Pacific today announced that they have received £150,000 of
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> launched in the prestigious Compass Rose suite of the Westin Hotel in
> Singapore last Friday. Power generation companies from India to Australia
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> Pamela Johnston, NiSoft Director for Asia Pacific, said "We are delighted
to
> see both new and existing customers respond with so much enthusiasm for
the
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the
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of
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>
>
>
Received on Thu Mar 16 2000 - 04:52:43 CST