User Management

The first line of defense against unwanted database access is controlling who can access the system in the first place. As you already know from previous chapters in this book, to use Oracle XE, a user must log in and provide a username. The following sections explain more about managing user access specifically in an Oracle XE database.

Oracle Database Users and Oracle Application Express Users

Before continuing, it is important to understand the distinction between two types of user accounts that previous chapters of this book introduce in the context of Oracle XE. In most of the previous chapters, you use Oracle XE database user accounts such as HANDSONXE03, HANDSONXE04, etc., to start utilities such as SQL*Plus and the Database ...

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