Siegfried Pietralla wrote:
>
> hello all,
>
> i was wondering if anyone runs their site in such a way that the user oracle
> is only used to manage the oracle software and that all database instances are
> owned by their own dba users. i know that if you start up an instance while
> logged in as another (not oracle) user then the background processes will be
> owned by that user. and i see no further problems if the database were to be
> completely created as another user. so . . . does anyone actually do this? and
> if so ( or even if you don't ) what are the implications of such an
> environment wrt the ofa?
>
> there are certainly benefits to be had by such an arrangement such as division
> of responsibility between development and production as well as safeguarding
> production db files from accidental deletion [ no i didn't!! well not yet
> anyway :) ] and others along such lines ???
>
> thank you for any response.
>
> siegfried.
I'm not working that way nowadays, but some time ago i was doing a lot
of test doing what you say, and i can tell that everything was OK!.
But i tried that using oracle V6.0.34.
Hope this helps.
Received on Thu Feb 13 1997 - 00:00:00 CST
