Preface

Welcome to Oracle Database 2 Day + Security Guide. This guide is for anyone who wants to perform common day-to-day security tasks with Oracle Database.

The contents of this preface are as follows:

• Audience

• Documentation Accessibility

• Related Documents

• Conventions

Audience

Oracle Database 2 Day + Security Guide expands on the security knowledge that you learned in Oracle Database 2 Day DBA to manage security in Oracle Database. The information in this guide applies to all platforms. For platform-specific information, see the installation guide, configuration guide, and platform guide for your platform.

This guide is intended for the following users:

• Oracle database administrators who want to acquire database security administrative skills

• Database administrators who have some security administrative knowledge but are new to Oracle Database

This guide is not an exhaustive discussion about security. For detailed information about security, see the Oracle Database Security documentation set. This guide does not provide information about security for Oracle E-Business Suite applications. For information about security in the Oracle E-Business Suite applications, see the documentation for those products.

Documentation Accessibility

Our goal is to make Oracle products, services, and supporting documentation accessible, with good usability, to the disabled community. To that end, our documentation includes features that make information available to users of assistive technology. This documentation is available in HTML format, and contains markup to facilitate access by the disabled community. Accessibility standards will continue to evolve over time, and Oracle is actively engaged with other market-leading technology vendors to address technical obstacles so that our documentation can be accessible to all of our customers. For more information, visit the Oracle Accessibility Program Web site at

http://www.oracle.com/accessibility/

Accessibility of Code Examples in Documentation

Screen readers may not always correctly read the code examples in this document. The conventions for writing code require that closing braces should appear on an otherwise empty line; however, some screen readers may not always read a line of text that consists solely of a bracket or brace.

Accessibility of Links to External Web Sites in Documentation

This documentation may contain links to Web sites of other companies or organizations that Oracle does not own or control. Oracle neither evaluates nor makes any representations regarding the accessibility of these Web sites.

TTY Access to Oracle Support Services

Oracle provides dedicated Text Telephone (TTY) access to Oracle Support Services within the United States of America 24 hours a day, seven days a week. For TTY support, call 800.446.2398.

Related Documents

For more information, use the following resources:

Oracle Database Documentation

For more security-related information, see the following documents in the Oracle Database documentation set:

• Oracle Database 2 Day DBA

• Oracle Database Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Database Security Guide

• Oracle Database Concepts

• Oracle Database Reference

• Oracle Database Vault Administrator's Guide

• Oracle Audit Vault Administrator's Guide

Many of the examples in this guide use the sample schemas of the seed database, which is installed by default when you install Oracle. See Oracle Database Sample Schemas for information about how these schemas were created and how you can use them.

Oracle Technology Network (OTN)

You can download free release notes, installation documentation, updated versions of this guide, white papers, or other collateral from the Oracle Technology Network (OTN). Visit:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/index.html

If you are not already a member, you can register for free at:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/membership/

For security-specific information about OTN, visit:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/deploy/security/index.html

For the latest version of the Oracle documentation, including this guide, visit:

http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/index.html

Oracle Documentation Search Engine

To access the database documentation search engine directly, visit:

http://tahiti.oracle.com/

Oracle Store

Printed documentation is available for sale in the Oracle Store at:

http://oraclestore.oracle.com/

OracleMetaLink

You can find information about security patches, certifications, and the support knowledge base by visiting OracleMetaLink at:

http://metalink.oracle.com/

Conventions

The following text conventions are used in this document: