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Details on system administration tasks such as setup and maintenance of databases and add-ons, user accounts, access rights, and migration and update procedures.
Databases
PLA 3.0 databases store all your data and also hold information such as user accounts, rights and permissions, signatures, and audit trail information. When logging in to PLA 3.0, users connect to a specific database, which sets their work environment for the session.
Database connections
You can connect PLA 3.0 to multiple databases. Since most settings in PLA 3.0 apply to individual databases, you can differentiate, for example, between production and test databases, catering to tasks that require different work environments.
Database connection profiles
Use database connection profiles to connect to PLA 3.0 databases. These profiles hold all properties required to connect to a database such as the path where the database is located, the user name, and the encrypted password to access the database.

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Administration
Details on system administration tasks such as setup and maintenance of databases and add-ons, user accounts, access rights, and migration and update procedures.
- Databases
  PLA 3.0 databases store all your data and also hold information such as user accounts, rights and permissions, signatures, and audit trail information. When logging in to PLA 3.0, users connect to a specific database, which sets their work environment for the session.
  - Database connections
    You can connect PLA 3.0 to multiple databases. Since most settings in PLA 3.0 apply to individual databases, you can differentiate, for example, between production and test databases, catering to tasks that require different work environments.
    - Database connection profiles
      Use database connection profiles to connect to PLA 3.0 databases. These profiles hold all properties required to connect to a database such as the path where the database is located, the user name, and the encrypted password to access the database.
    - Profile management commands
      Use the commands at the bottom of the Manage database connection profiles dialog to manage database configuration profiles.
    - Add database connections
      Use the database connection management feature to create new PLA 3.0 databases, connect to existing databases, initialize databases, or import database connection profiles. You can add any number of connection profiles
    - Export database connections
      Export a database connection profile to distribute the respective database connection to other PLA 3.0 installations.
    - Import database connections
      Import an existing database connection profile to connect to a database using the connection parameters of the imported profile.
  - Database templates
    To enable you to create new databases more efficiently, PLA 3.0 provides a database template feature. This feature allows you to use existing SQLite databases as templates for the creation of new databases.
  - Database administration
    Use the database administration features to set up, monitor, and maintain your PLA 3.0 database system.
- Extensibility with add-ons
  PLA 3.0 consists of a framework and add-ons. The PLA 3.0 framework handles data as electronic documents. It provides the features you need to achieve regulatory compliance such as access control, data integrity, security, validation, and traceability.
- Rights and permissions
  PLA 3.0 provides the features you need to control access to your data in a sophisticated and compliant manner. It combines role-based user rights with resource-based permissions, which enables you to exercise fine-grained control over who can perform particular tasks in a given context and which tasks are allowed with particular data.
- Update, upgrade, and migrate
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Database connection profiles

Use database connection profiles to connect to PLA 3.0 databases. These profiles hold all properties required to connect to a database such as the path where the database is located, the user name, and the encrypted password to access the database.

Important: Database connection profiles represent links or shortcuts to a specific database and are stored independently from the respective database.

To manage these profiles, you use the Manage database connection profiles dialog. You access this dialog from the PLA 3.0 Login dialog by selecting Tools >

Database management.

Figure 1. Manage database connection profiles dialog in PLA 3.0

The following items are available:


No.	Item	Description
1	Profile list	Lists all available database connection profiles. For each profile, the name of the profile, its status, database schema, and the type of the linked database are displayed.
2	Database details	Displays details of the database linked to the selected profile.
3	Profile management commands	Use the available commands to manage database connection profiles. For details on each command, see the Profile management commands topic.