Friday 15 January 2021

Is it possible to view database performance information without DBA privilege in Oracle 11g?

 

The DBA can grant you SELECT privileges to the V$ performance views. It's good for instance tuning, but not as effective as SQL Trace or ADVISOR privilege for query tuning.

Friday 1 January 2021

How to kill own Oracle SQL sessions without DBA privileges?

 

To successfully run an ALTER SYSTEM command, you don't need to be the DBA, but you do need the ALTER SYSTEM privilege to be granted to you (or to the "user" owning the application through which you connect to the database - which may be different from "you" as the "user" ).