Best practices for one account's users to get new accounts?

After eight years of sharing my iTunes account, my kids are moving out into the real world. How would/should they get their "own" iTunes accounts? They will want to buy their own music with their own money (without Dad's payment info) but of course want to be able to continue to play all the music they've bought over the years on my account. What is the best way to accomplish this?

Well, I've been trying this for a while. By my calculations, at this rate, installing all the applications one by one and trying to restore all the data manually will take me about six years. I would finished just in time for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
The main problem is, I don't know where all the bodies are buried. Just one example, I'm using Cornerstone for an svn client. I have working copies of multiple repositories on my computer. I really don't want to set them all up again, and I can't figure out where the Cornerstone preferences and all settings are stored. I couldn't find them in the Library anywhere.
And that's just one case.
I haven't done much with my MacBook Pro yet, I think in retrospect the easiest course of action is to reinstall OS X as though it were new MacBook Pro, start from scratch, and use my Time Machine backup with the migration assistant and go from there.
And that's what I'm doing right now. I'm in the middle of reinstalling OS X.
Afterwords I'll use a clean app uninstaller application to get rid of all the applications that I'm not using. And I'll just hack away at directories that I know I haven't looked at for years, with the confidence that I have a backup both in Time Machine and in CCC and also on my iMac. That's three backups.
I would rather start out "light", but I can see it's just going to take forever and a day to get it done. Anyway, fortunately nothing is carved in stone, and I can always try again if I want to. But dealing with all the documents and all the applications one by one separately was just obviously going to take too much time.
I'll report back on my results. And I appreciate your suggestion.
Doug

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Not sure if this is the correct forum to post, if not then let me know where should I post.
From my understanding this is the best forum to ask this questions.
Are you aware of any "Best Practice Document" to grant select accesses to users on databases. These users are developers which select data out of database for the investigation and application bug fix.
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Are you aware of any "Best Practice Document" to grant select accesses to users on databases. These users are developers which select data out of database for the investigation and application bug fix.
From time to time user want more and more access to different tables so that they can do investigation properly.
Let me know if there exists a best practice document around this space.
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Here is the main page for Oracles' OPAC white papers about security.
http://www.oracletechnetwork-ap.com/topics/201207-Security/resources_whitepaper.cfm
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http://www.dbspecialists.com/files/presentations/implementing_oracle_11g_enterprise_user_security.pdf
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I would rather start out "light", but I can see it's just going to take forever and a day to get it done. Anyway, fortunately nothing is carved in stone, and I can always try again if I want to. But dealing with all the documents and all the applications one by one separately was just obviously going to take too much time.
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