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Common Tasks
Author: Andrew Figueroa
The following is a list of common tasks that occur while using or managing an instance of ClassDB. A brief description for each task is provided, along with a link to a page about the respective task.
Tasks
- Adding users - Add Instructors, Students, and optionally, DBManagers to an instance of ClassDB
- Revoking roles - Revoke a ClassDB group role from a user
- Removing users - Remove users from an instance of ClassDB
- Managing teams - Add and remove teams, as well as add and remove student membership
- Viewing users - Obtain a list of users who are registered in the current instance of ClassDB
- Changing and resetting passwords - Change the password for the current user, and reset forgotten passwords
- Setting connection limits and query timeout - Learn about two restrictions on Student users and modify their values or disable them altogether
- Listing and describing tables - View the tables in a given schema and describe information for each table
- Monitoring user activity - View and analyze the results of ClassDB’s logging capabilities
- Managing user connections - View the database connections that a user currently has open
- Managing log files - Manage the log files that are created by Postgres
- Frequent User Views - Utility views providing data and activity summaries of ClassDB users