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Use

Users require a password ( password) to connect to the database instance (start a database session).

Structure
				
<password>::=
  <identifier>
| <first_password_character>[<identifier_tail_character>...]

<first_password_character>::=
  <digit>
| <letter>
| <extended_letter>
| <language_specific_character>

<digit>::=
  0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9

<letter>::=
  A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M
| N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
| a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m
| n | o | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z

<extended_letter>::=
  # | @ | $

<identifier_tail_character>::=
  <digit>
| <letter>
| <extended_letter>
| <language_specific_character>
| <underscore>

<underscore>::=
  _

Explanation

Passwords are truncated after 256 characters.

Language-specific characters

A language-specific character ( language_specific_character) is any letter that occurs in a northern, southern, or central European language and is not contained in the list of letters.

Example

German umlauts: ä, ö, ü

French letters with a grave accent: →

If you have installed a UNICODE-enabled database, a language-specific character is a character that is not included in the ASCII code list from 0 to 127.

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