How does the bit after the semi-colon compare. The...

2011-11-29T18:12:51.532+11:00

How does the bit after the semi-colon compare. The bit before is the case-sensitive version, and I don't know whether the locale of the install would have an effect on that.

I do recall that in the older case-insensitive password checks, there is an implicit UPPER which had some side-effects if you used passwords with characters beyond ASCII 127. [IE the upper done by your client might not match the upper done by the server.]

So on my 32 bit XE 11g I created user gary identif...

2011-11-29T09:43:47.526+11:00

So on my 32 bit XE 11g I created user gary identified by gary, then ran the dbms.metadata, and it gave a different values, starting with S:4EFCD32...

I'm curious if that S:4 is a bit size identifier, or just something random, seeing as yours is S:8? Don't have a 64 bit 11 to check.

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How does the bit after the semi-colon compare. The...

So on my 32 bit XE 11g I created user gary identif...