About Orac

Background

Orac provides much of the functionality that any DBA could want. It includes scripts that help in managing: Physical Database Files, Users, Database Objects (such as Tables, Views, Sequences, etc.) as well as scripts that help tune the database and resolve "locking" conflicts.

Orac builds on this collection of widely available SQL scripts by providing a nice GUI and a logical organization of the scripts. Orac is extensible, of course, in the sense that the source code is readily available. Even better though, Orac has an easy method of adding support for additional SQL scripts without even editing a single line of code! So for those DBAs out there that already have their favorite scripts Orac is even more useful.

By the way, the Orac program was named after a super computer in the BBC science fiction television series "Blake's 7" and in no way take's its name from the Oracle database or the Oracle Corporation. No affiliation with Oracle Corporation is intended or implied.

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