We have 'production support' databases which are essentially clones of production. Reloading is sometimes a pain but they are great for developer trouble shooting without letting them get their hands on production. --- Charlotte Hammond <charlottejanehammond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Mladen, > > Your suggestion is wonderful. It will make my life > so much easier - I'll look after the read only > account if you wouldn't mind dealing with the other > 999 non-read only users on the system. Now what > digits do you need to put in front of that 121 > extenstion? (just so I can add it to the application > splash screen...) > > - Charlotte > > Mladen Gogala <MGogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The trick that will disable modifications from > procedures is > to do the following, logged in as SYSDBA: > startup force mount > alter database open read only > > Your read-only user will not be able to modify > anything in the > database, regardless of the procedures that he has > access to. > > -- > Mladen Gogala > Ext. 121 > > > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Jazz up your holiday email with celebrity designs. > Learn more. > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > ===== Pete Barnett Lead Database Administrator The Regence Group pnbarne@xxxxxxxxxxx __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Send holiday email and support a worthy cause. Do good. http://celebrity.mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l