Re: 500 users, 10,000 roles: Performance problems to be expected?

Originally posted by Holger Peine
> Hello,
>
> I'm designing the user/role/privilege security for an existing Oracle
> 8i database accessed through an application server (Bea Weblogic). So
> far, the AS uses one DB user for all accesses, i.e. end users are
> managed in the AS only, not in the DB.
>
> I plan to change that and make a dedicated account for each end user
> (about 500) plus maybe 10,000 roles (one role per user and a few roles
> per row in the central data table, which is expected to hold a few
> thousand rows). Of the 500 users, maybe 20 are connected at the same
> time (on the average). Is this sensible from point of view of
> performance?

"a few roles per row"??? What is THAT all about?

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