Oracle 10g - How to prevent one user from hogging all resources? I am wondering if there is any way to limit how much resources one user can take on my Oracle system. I want to limit some queries and systems from being able to hog all system resources when they run non optimized queries.
There is a built-in utility called Resource Manager exactly for that purpose:
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14231/dbrm.htm#i1010776