Re: Access/dump datafile (no alter system/database, e.g. AWS RDS)

I don't see how that question makes sense in a Cloud environment. In fact, I don't really see how it makes sense anywhere outside of a lab/play environment. What's your use case?

On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 11:55 AM vit.spinka <vit.spinka_at_vitspinka.cz> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I wonder if there is a way how to get to the datafiles in say Amazon RDS,
> as there is no filesystem access. And the users cannot have alter system or
> alter database grants, so I can't even dump contents of a data block.
> The backups are file system snapshots, but these don't seem to be
> accessible, either.
>
> Or am I missing somethings, is there a way how to access an arbitrary
> datafile block?
>
> Thanks for all ideas!
>
> Vit
>

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