Thursday, January 1, 2009

What is the difference between a schema and a user?

  • A schema is collection of database objects, including logical structures such as tables, views, sequences, stored procedures, synonyms, indexes, clusters, and database links.
  • A user owns a schema.
  • A user and a schema have the same name.
  • The CREATE USER command creates a user. It also automatically creates a schema for that user.
  • The CREATE SCHEMA command does not create a "schema" as it implies, it just allows you to create multiple tables and views and perform multiple grants in your own schema in a single transaction.
  • For all intents and purposes you can consider a user to be a schema and a schema to be a user.

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