Re: Oracle 11g new features

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 11:35:41 -0700
Message-ID: <1174847740.722061@bubbleator.drizzle.com>

sybrandb_at_hccnet.nl wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Mar 2007 20:49:29 +0100, "Matthias Hoys" <anti_at_spam.com>
> wrote:
>

>> How about:
>>
>> CREATE USER LIKE ...
>> FLASHBACK SCHEMA ...
>> select * from v$alertlog (ok, this one can be easily made with external 
>> tables :-))
>>
>>
>> Matthias 
>>

>
> I would wish Oracle would
> - drop CONNECT, RESOURCE and DBA roles *completely*
> - make it impossible to have a password equal to the username
> ( I know both can be done, but 99 percent of all third party app
> developers don't protect their databases and refuse to have the
> privileges and the password changed)

You've got my vote.

And while they are at it perhaps announce a real kill date for LONG, LONG RAW, UNIQUE, and numerous other bits of superfluous syntax and legacy functionality.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org

Received on Sun Mar 25 2007 - 13:35:41 CDT