Re: bbed utility password

On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:19:32 GMT, "Paul Linehan" <plinehan__A_at_T__yahoo__D.OT__COM> wrote:

>What's the problem with giving the guy the bbed password
>(for which you can find some docco on the net)? I'd be
>kinda curious to mess around with this thing myself.
>

Generally speaking I don't think anyone wants to be responsible for providing advice which can potentially wreck a database. Even if one does forwarn people, they still might follow up the advice, wreck their database and don't know how to recover.

IMO, I'm not in favor to support or promote 'hacking a database', I'm in favor of following documented procedures.

So if you want to wreck your own database, I won't provide you the means to do so, and I won't help you out.
>
>If he wishes to destroy a db to which he has access, then
>that's his business - no? And if not, then why not?
>

See the preceding paragraph. Generally speaking I don't want to be responsible someone being kicked out, as a result of my advice. In this particular case I would love to see the OP to wreck his database and be unable to recover, but that is because of the attitude the OP has displayed here before, pretending to know everything way better than everyone else.

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Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA