sgcrm5*sgcrm5-/home/oracle >sqlplus / as sysdba SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Mon Oct 15 14:38:25 2012 Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved. Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options [email protected]> show parameter resource_limit NAME TYPE VALUE ------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------ resource_limit boolean FALSE [email protected]> alter system set resource_limit=true scope=both; System altered. Elapsed: 00:00:00.08 [email protected]> select username,profile from DBA_USERS 2 ; USERNAME PROFILE ------------------------------ ------------------------------ 9959 DEFAULT SCOTT DEFAULT SPOTLIGHT DEFAULT SPATIAL_WFS_ADMIN_USR DEFAULT MDDATA DEFAULT XS$NULL DEFAULT APEX_PUBLIC_USER DEFAULT TSMSYS DEFAULT DIP DEFAULT SPATIAL_CSW_ADMIN_USR DEFAULT ORACLE_OCM DEFAULT OWBSYS DEFAULT EXFSYS DEFAULT FLOWS_030000 DEFAULT FLOWS_FILES DEFAULT WK_TEST DEFAULT DBSNMP MONITORING_PROFILE WMSYS DEFAULT ORDSYS DEFAULT WKSYS WKSYS_PROF XDB DEFAULT OLAPSYS DEFAULT SI_INFORMTN_SCHEMA DEFAULT ORDPLUGINS DEFAULT WKPROXY DEFAULT MDSYS DEFAULT SYSMAN DEFAULT CTXSYS DEFAULT ANONYMOUS DEFAULT SYS DEFAULT SYSTEM DEFAULT MGMT_VIEW DEFAULT OUTLN DEFAULT 33 rows selected. Elapsed: 00:00:00.05 [email protected]> select distinct(profile) from dba_profiles; PROFILE ------------------------------ WKSYS_PROF DEFAULT MONITORING_PROFILE PROFILE9959 Elapsed: 00:00:00.01 [email protected]> SELECT name, value 2 FROM gv$parameter 3 WHERE name = 'resource_limit'; NAME -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- VALUE -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- resource_limit TRUE Elapsed: 00:00:00.01 [email protected]> alter user system profile PROFILE9959; User altered. Elapsed: 00:00:00.07 [email protected]> sgcrm5*sgcrm5-/home/oracle >sqlplus / as sysdb