Specific courses on OLAP and oracle security

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can anyone specify on specific courses and book(s) on OLAP and oracle db security?
thanx in advance

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I teach and recommend "Oracle Database 10g: Using OLAP (Data Warehousing and Oracle BI)" as a starter. Other stuff, go to http://education.oracle.com , enter 'OLAP' into the Search box and hit 'Go' button.
Database Security: Depends entirely on what you want to accomplish, but I find Oracle University course offerings lacking in this area. (I really wish May Ann Davidson would do something about that, and I'd love to help.)
The OCP Admin I and Admin II course each have a chapter discussing Security. I think these are rather simplistic for the commercial world, but most OCP candidates I see get stymied by even that level.
The "Oracle Database 10g: Security Release 2" course is a reasonably good starting point, but few offer it. (And yes, I teach that as well)

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