Basic Schema inquiry

My organization is considering combining 2 schema's into one. Each schema is mostly used by the corresponding subdepartment, but we also access each other's schema's without restrictions. I am not DBA, but I hope to do some PL/SQL programming which would transfer some records from one schema to another.
First, please clarify me on following. Everyone (non-technical management) refers to these schemas as Databases. But my guess is that these are different schemas located in the same database.
To access the two schemas I type something like:
sqlplus username1/password1@aaa (for one)
sqlplus username2/password2@aaa (for another)
I saw online that the @aaa part refers to the Instance of Oracle. My shaky understanding is that an instance can contain multiple databases. In that case, these could be different schemas, which are also located in different databases (in that case, everyone is right).
So my first question is: how do I know to which Database I am connected when I access these schemas?
Assuming that these are two schemas in the same database, what would I need to program between schemas? Would it be enough, if the DBA assigned permissions for each username to access/modify another schema?
Is there truth to saying that combining 2 schemas into one increases performance? What are other pros and cons?
Thanks a lot! I asked a lot of questions.
-John

So my first question is: how do I know to which Database I am connected when I access these schemas?In Oracle, 1 instance = 1 database. And 1 database = several schemas = several user accounst = several namespaces.
In Oracle CREATE DATABASE statement creates 1 and only 1 database. Very different from SQL Server/Sybase/MySQL.
In both cases, you database is "aaa" and
sqlplus username1/password1@aaa (for one) => current schema is username1
sqlplus username2/password2@aaa (for another) => current schema is username2
what would I need to program between schemas?You need to grant required privileges to the other user and to prefix each object with the schema name in your queries.
Would it be enough, if the DBA assigned permissions for each username to access/modify another schema?Yes
Is there truth to saying that combining 2 schemas into one increases performance? What are other pros and cons?> I don't know.

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Edited by: user11356487 on Mar 14, 2011 12:17 PM

user11356487 wrote:
I want to list all users, who has created at least one object in his schema(table proc trigger etc..).
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I want to exlude any user which exists and might have privileges on other users objects but has not created or owns any objects.
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And what have you done for the second task?
thanks
Edited by: user11356487 on Mar 14, 2011 12:17 PM

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Matej Mihalech wrote:Hi to all!At first I am sorry for a lot of noob questions - I am just beginner in networking.I have LAN with 1 SW (cisco catalyst 2950 series), 1 R (cisco 2501), one Apache server on Linux machine (Fedora) and 5 computers . My task is to test my application for preventing DoS attacks on the computer with Apache. My network design is on the image, but if will be necessery, I can change it (I can use more switches and routers like this). So my noob questions are:1.) will this desing work? How can I connect these to LANs to router? do I need one more router? can I connect SW ethernet port to router's console port?2.) I have erased SW and R configuration. I have configured only interfaces and RIP protocol with networks 10.0.0.0/8 and 192.168.0.0/24. what else I need to configure for making possible viewing webpage from computer with apache on other computer?3.) what is "ip http server" setting?4.) i need to send TCP, UDP, HTTP and ICMP packets from computers to apache (is it default allowed?).5.) i need to use all bandwidth for DoS attack, so i need to disable security mechanisms (configurations are erased, so what else do i need to disable or set up?) I heard only about storm-control, but it is disabled.6.) do I need to setup something like this for full speed on devices? interface range fa 0/1 - 3speed 100duplex full7.) last question is, I want to monitor protocols and ports of packets sent from computers to apache computer or bandwidth usage (bits/s). Does have SW/R some mechanisms for statistics like this?Thank you very much.Matej
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To answer your questions 9I'm assuming some basic knowlege of how to use IOS, so these commands are indicative only).
The 2501 has only one ethernet port, so you can't connect the way you have in your diagram. Youc an not connect an ethernet port to the router console port - the console port is a serial connection, by default running at 9600/8N1, and is not convertable to ethernet.
To make your required network work, you'd need to do the following.
1) Configure your 2501 ethernet port for dot1q VLAN trunking by doing something like this
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Then connect the ethernet interface of your 2501 to a port on your 2950 switch - I'll assume it's a 24 port switch, so I'll use interface f0/24
Create VLAN's 2 & 3 for your devices by doing this (2950 is so old the IOS method us creating VLAN's won't work, from memory)
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