RE: SYS vs SYSTEM

From: Henry Poras <Henry.Poras_at_ctp.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 08:45:43 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0032B731.20010615083114@fatcity.com>

Well, you could always set synonyms so they wouldn't notice. I typically make SYS off limits by making the password inaccessible. IDENTIFIED BY VALUES 'no way';

Henry

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Hi all,  

I generally use SYSTEM rather than SYS for DBA work, and would like to discourage the use of SYS as much as possible. Partly because it bypasses auditing and the profile, and also because I tend to regard SYS as being for Oracle-specific things (like running scripts from $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/admin) and SYSTEM for doing the day-to-day tasks (like administering storage, performance monitoring etc).  

Does this reasoning make sense? And, what would be a good way to explain it to developers who've gotten used to writing app installation scripts than run as SYS (for example, they might refer to AQ$_AGENT rather than SYS.AQ$_AGENT)?   Thanks,  

g.  

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