Re: Privileges by session

This is a really interesting thread with lots of useful information, but one important option (IMO) has not yet been mentioned.

If the main reason for allowing developers access to production data is for them to troubleshoot problems using current data, why don't you use your favourite replication mechanism such as streams or logical standby to a separate environment? Developers could use this to their heart's delight and you can impose your read only restrictions. There shouldn't be a logical argument against getting them off production with that approach either.

Any fixes can then be tested against the integration environment before it's rolled out to production by the DBAs. You could even use a physical standby to perform this testing: use flashback database or snapshot standby to activate it and test against current data, then revert it back to the standby role.

Hope this helps,

Martin

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On 09/01/10 00:00, Upendra N wrote:


> In our environment we have software dpkgs are built without the

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