The values in a profile always take precedence over similar values defined for a user in a CREATE USER or MODIFY USER statement.
Profile members inherit any changed parameters. Parameter changes take effect at different times:
| Changed Parameters | When Effective |
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| SPOOL and TEMPORARY space allocations | Immediately. Affects current session of any member logged on when profile is modified. If you create a profile with a 10 TB spool space limit and assign 10 users to the profile, each user can run queries in parallel and consume a total of 10 TB of spool (assuming you have 10 TB of space free).
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| ACCOUNT and DEFAULT DATABASE | Next logon. However, if a member user submits a SET SESSION ACCOUNT statement at a point in the session after the profile is modified, the database uses the new values. |
| Password control | Next logon by user members of profile. |