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Information on how the OPS$
Users Wor

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Does anyone have information or a good understandin

how the OPS$ users work and operate under an Oracl
SAP environment.
I would greatly appreciate some assistance as I have
problems with my Brconnect and Brbackup within DB
due to the OPS$ users.

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I need info on how to permanently delete the OPS$ us

and then recreate it, due to the fact that I have incorre
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OPS$ users
in some of the tables affected by the OPS$
users.
Below is the document I have prepared on recreating the
OPS$ machanism. It helped me solve all my problem on
DB13 and also on Schema
owner connecting to database.
Hope this could help you.
Also refer to the following sapnotes: 

1. 400241 : Problem withe ops$ or sapr3 connect to oracl

2. 134592  : Importing the SAPDBA role (sapdba_role.sq
3. 361641  : Creating OPS$ users on UNIX

4. 50088   : Creating OPS$ users on Windows

NT/Oracle
5. 437648  : DB13: External program terminated with
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select owner from dba_tables where table_name='SAPUS
## If owner is not the sid you require, then drop the
table
SAPUSER

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Drop table "?owner>".SAPUSER;

#or#

Drop table "domain\OPS$SIDadm".SAPUSER;

## IF THE ANSWER IS 0 ROWS SELECTED THEN
CREATE THE TABLE
SAPUSER
# Check whether OPS$?SID>adm user exist, if no then cr
it
create user OPS$SIDadm default tablespace psapuser1d
temporary
tablespace psaptemp identified 
externally;
# if exist then drop it;
DROP USER OPS$SIDADM;

# Grant connect ? resource roll to OPS$?SID>ADM;

grant connect, resource to OPS$SIDADM;
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# Creat table SAPUSER

create table "OPS$SIDADM".SAPUSER ( USERID
VARCHAR2(256),
PASSWD VARCHAR2 (256));
# update "OPS$?SID>ADM.SAPUSER with the follwoin
command

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insert into "OPS$SIDADM".SAPUSER  values ('SAPR3'

'sap'); #sap = ?password>
# Under NT it is required that user sapservice?sid> can
al
access the SAPUSER table. In order 
to avoid problems with the data consistency, it does not
m
sense to create an additional 
SAPUSER table having the same contents. You should ra
define a synonym. Check if a suitable 
synonym exists by using the following call:

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SELECT OWNER, TABLE_OWNER, TABLE_NAME

FROM DBA_SYNONYMS
WHERE SYNONYM_NAM
'SAPUSER';
# IF NOT THEN CREAT IT 
create public synonym sapuser for
OPS$SIDADM.SAPSUER;
# if synonym already exists drop the existing synonym
by
following command
drop public synonym sapuser;
#If another name ?name> is returned as first value:
DROP SYNONYM "?name>".SAPUSER;
# AND CREAT it again with above command
# To allow access to the synonym (or the associated table
grant

           
needs to be executed. The authorization for this ha
only the

           
ops$ user who is the owner of the actual table - th
           
ops$?sid>adm. Therefore, you need to log on with
           
corresponding operating system user (?sid>adm) a

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execute the

           
following commands:
           
CONNECT /

           
GRANT SELECT, UPDATE ON SAPUSER TO
"OPS$SAPSERVICE?sid>";
# Now you can recreate the synonym (not PUBLIC, if
possible):
 CREATE SYNONYM "OPS$SAPSERVICESID".SAPU
FOR "OPS$SIDADM".SAPUSER;
 CREATE SYNONYM OPS$SAPSERVICESID.SAPUSE
for OPS$SIDADM.SAPUSER;

# COMMIT AFTER COMPLETION of the activity ? res

the
DB

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