User Guide

SAP AG November 2002
Database users can be grouped into user groups [Page 30].
DBA
DBA users (database administrators) are special database users [Page 136] of the database
user class [Page 28] DBA. They are created by the SYSDBA [Page 151].
A DBA user is authorized to create RESOURCE [Page 146] and STANDARD users [Page
]. The DBA user can also define data and database procedures and grant other users all or
some DBA user privileges for these database objects.
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A DBA user can group users with identical access rights into user groups [Page
30].
A special DBA user is the user DOMAIN [Page
137].
DBM Operator
See Database Manager Operator (DBM Operator) [Page 13 ]4
DBMCLI
See Database Manager CLI [Page 133]
DBMGUI
See Database Manager GUI [Page 134]
DOMAIN
The DOMAIN user is a special database user [Page 136] of the database user class [Page
28] DBA [Page 137]. The DOMAIN user is the owner of the system tables of the database
catalog [Page 131].
Just like the SYSDBA [Page 151] user, the DOMAIN user is created when a database
instance [Page 132] is installed. The DOMAIN user is created by the system under the pre-
defined name DOMAIN. The password is the same as that of the SYSDBA user that was
created earlier.
The DOMAIN user’s password can be changed at a later date.
External Backup ID
Every backup that is created on a backup medium [Page 127] using an external backup tool
has a unique external backup ID. This ID is generated by the DBM Server [Page 58] or the
backup tool during the backup. If a backup was created using a media group, every part of
this backup has its own external backup ID.
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