DOAG / SOUG Security-Lounge at Basel
The DOAG regional group is organizing together with SOUG a Security Lounge on the 24th of April. I'll attend this event with two short presentations on Database Security and Oracle Auditing.
View ArticleOracle TNS Poison vulnerability
A few days after the last critical patch update Oracle had to post security alert for CVE-2012-1675. The issue also known as "TNS Listener Poison Attack" is affecting any Oracle Database Server. As a...
View ArticleOracle CPU / PSU Pre-Release Announcement October 2012
Today Oracle has published the Pre-Release Announcement for the october CPU Patch. This Critical Patch Update contains 109 new security vulnerability fixes for several Oracle products. 5 of these fixes...
View ArticleOracle CPU / PSU Pre-Release Announcement January 2013
Once again, Oracle has published the Pre-Release Announcement for the first CPU Patch in 2013. This Critical Patch Update is reasonably small and contains 86 new security vulnerability fixes for...
View ArticleNew Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall
In the hustle and bustle of the Christmas season, it went under that Oracle had released a new version of Oracle Audit Vault respectively Oracle Audit Vault and Database Firewall. This weekend I found...
View ArticleOracle released CPU / PSU January 2013
As announced in my post about Oracle’s pre-release announcement of last week, Oracle has now released the first Critical Patch Updates for 2013. Overall this CPU contains 86 new security fixes across...
View ArticleSOUG Special Intrest Group Baden March 21st
In about two weeks I will participate at the SOUG special interest group at Baden. I will present a paper entitled “New Security Features in latest generation of Oracle Database“. Where latest...
View ArticleDOAG SIG Security
Just a couple of hours ago I’ve lecture a presentation about the latest Generation of Database Technology at the DOAG SIG Security in München. It is a sneak preview on a few upcoming security...
View ArticleDOAG 2013 Datenbank
As I announced a while ago in SOUG Special Interest Group Baden March 21st I’ll speak again about some improvements in the latest generation of Oracle Database. The content of the presentation is a...
View ArticleUse of DEFAULT_CLEANUP_INTERVAL
Following a question to the blog post Database Audit and Audit trail purging, I noticed something interesting about the DEFAULT_CLEANUP_INTERVAL parameter. On one hand, it is mandatory to initialize...
View ArticleFast lane to ORA-00600 service requests
There are several way’s to find information on internal oracle errors like ORA-00600 and ORA-07445. Looking up google is one of them, but not in any case the best one. If you are using Oracle Metalink...
View ArticlePivot query on Automatic Workload Repository
I’ve just tried to get a few information from the Automatic Workload Repository (AWR). I actually wanted to put together an overview of various system metrics from DBA_HIST_SYSMETRIC_SUMMARY to create...
View ArticleOracle Database 12c somehow available
Since a few hours Oracle Database 12c is available for download on Oracle eDelivery platform. Currently it is just available for Linux x86_64. I assume that the official release is getting closer. I’ll...
View ArticleOracle Database 12c
Oracle still hasn’t officially announce the new Oracle Database 12c release. But since OTN database overview has been changed to 12c, I guess it is now somehow official. As rumors hinted, one of the...
View ArticleOracle 12c New Security Features
I’ve just uploaded the slides for my lecture Oracle 12c new security features, as I had promised this in my previous posts. (See also DOAG 2013 Datenbank or DOAG SIG Security). The slides is a...
View ArticleOracle released CPU / PSU July 2013
About a week ago Oracle has released the July Critical Patch Updates. Overall this CPU contains 89 new security fixes across several Oracle products like Database Server, MySQL Server, Sun Product...
View ArticleError installing Audit Vault Agent 12.1.1 on AIX
The Problem During the setup of the current audit vault agent 12.1.1 on AIX, I’ve run into issues. Depending on the configuration of the AIX environment, the agent can not be installed at all....
View ArticleOracle 12c new password verify function
Even with Oracle Database 12c, the quality of the database passwords is not enforced by default. A password verify function with the corresponding password resource limits has to be developed...
View ArticleQuery alert log from sqlplus
It is not really a novum that you can directly query the alertlog from SQLPlus. Tanel Poder and others already have discussed this a while ago. Somehow I can never remember the name of the X$ view when...
View ArticleOracle database binaries with perl
Perl and Oracle has not always an easy past. Depending on the OS type and Oracle Version it can be quite nerve racking to compile DBI and DBD::Oracle. In addition to DBD::Oracle there are also other...
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