Users working with the Database Manager are known as Database Manager Operators. The SAP DB user class is the DBM operator.
Depending on what authorizations the DBM operator has been given, a DBM operator is able to perform all kinds of Database Manager functions.
You create the first DBM operator when you install a database instance.
The Database Manager stores the name and password of the DBM operator in uppercase characters. Special characters are not permitted.
When you register a database instance, you must specify the name and the password of the first DBM operator. In this way, you legitimize yourself as the DBM operator of the database instance. The DBM operator’s password can be changed at a later date.
· This DBM operator is then responsible for managing and monitoring the database system and for running backups and restores. The DBM operator is also authorized to perform all Database Manager functions, regardless of what operational state the database instance is in.
· The DBM operator is also authorized to create additional DBM operators, and assign them some or all of his or her authorizations.
· The DBM operator can log on to the Database Manager more than once, which means the DBM operator can, for example, query operating parameters while functions that take a long time are still running.
DBM operators are not database users. To be able to work with a database instance, you must create the database user (with the query tool SQL Studio, for example).