We had a TOAD problem when a developer using TOAD truncated an important table in Dev. We subsequently found out that that functionality can be disabled in a config file. Don Freeman Database Administrator 1 Bureau of Information Technology Pennsylvania Department of Health 717-783-8095 Ext 337 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Michael.Coll-Barth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 4:36 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Managing developers recommendations What difference does it make? If they don't have the rights to delete the object in Oracle, they can click delete all they want, nothing will happen. The question you should be asking is why do they want it? Database security ( Oracle or otherwise ) should always be set in the database itself, not some tool. -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Fred Smith Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 4:30 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Managing developers recommendations Hi all, My developers (who currently just use SQL Plus) now are wanting to use Quest TOAD. From what I've used it in the past, it is far too powerful for developers. (I don't trust my developers with creating tablespaces, etc.). Plus, I've found that TOAD is far too easy to delete objects, etc. Any recommendations, etc would greatly be appreciated! -Fred S. _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l ___________________________________________________________________ The information contained in this message and any attachment may be proprietary, confidential, and privileged or subject to the work product doctrine and thus protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by replying to this message and deleting it and all copies and backups thereof. Thank you. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l