CHAPTER 19Basic Oracle Security
Information is vital to success, but when damaged or in the wrong hands, it can threaten success. Oracle provides extensive security features to safeguard your information from both unauthorized viewing and intentional or inadvertent damage. This security is provided by granting or revoking privileges on a person-by-person and privilege-by-privilege basis, and is in addition to (and independent of) any security your computer system already has. Oracle uses the create user, create role, and grant commands to control data access.
In this chapter, you will see the basic security features available in Oracle. See Chapter 20 for coverage of advanced Oracle security features such as virtual private databases.
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