after 27+ years in Oracle land I am forced to patch sqlplus
When starting to use sqlplus 12.2 I noticed that my SQL prompt was not changing to what login.sql told it to be. This did not happen in sqlplus 12.1 …
Author: Andre van Winssen
You are in trouble when more than 8 kernel options are enabled in oracle executable
A brief headsup for everyone responsible for maintaining kernel options in the oracle executable. The environment where I discovered this is a 3 node racattack cluster with Oracle GI …
One of the many nice new features in 12c database: code based access control
September 5, 2016
Cyber Security, Databases, Deployment, Oracle, Oracle 12, PL/SQL, Software Development, SQL
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Topic of this blog is a nice new feature in 12c, not the plsql package I built that’s using it. So here’s the story.. For one of our customers …
12c DBCA skips database-patching activities
Thanks to colleague Patrick Roozen I learned that there’s a tiny little flaw in Oracle databases 12c patch procedures when using DBUA (upgrade) and DBCA (create custom database) when …
Use DB Vault to protect password strength policy
Suppose your organization wants to enforce a security policy on database password strength. The DBA’s have implemented a password strength verification function in PLSQL such as the oracle supplied …