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SecureFiles in Oracle 11g…

I’ve just posted an article on SecureFiles in Oracle 11g. It looks like Oracle have done a pretty good job of improving LOBs in 11g. Depending on the LOB contents, and provided you can cope with the processing overhead, you can certainly save some serious space using the compression and deduplication options. Anyone who’s used [...]

Posted 17 April 2008 † Tim... § Oracle ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Lots of good stuff out there…

There’s some good stuff out on the net today:

Tom is back and talking about the level of skills in the IT industry. I think we all share his pain.
Mary Ann Davidson has a great piece on security. This links in nicely with what Tom was saying, in so far as it relates to [...]

Posted 08 April 2008 † Tim... § Oracle ‡ Comments (3) ° Also tagged:

Fine-Grained Access to Network Services in 11g…

Continuing my OCP 11g upgrade campaign, I’ve been looking at Fine-Grained Access to Network Services in Oracle Database 11g Release 1.
This represents a pretty major security improvement for Oracle 11g. In previous versions the all-or-nothing security associated with database callouts was a little ham-fisted to say the least.
On the down side, I think it will [...]

Posted 03 April 2008 † Tim... § Oracle ‡ Comments (2) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,

Secure External Password Store…

Someone on my forum was having a problem with the Secure External Password Store feature and to be honest I hadn’t got a clue because I had never used this feature. A few minutes of messing about with it resulted in this:

Secure External Password Store

Cheers
Tim…

Posted 19 July 2007 † Tim... § Oracle ‡ Comments (5) ° Also tagged: ,

Schema Owners and Application Users…

I was trying to explain to a colleague the concept of using application users, rather than logging directly into the schema owner. Although it’s a very basic point, it seemed worthy of a write-up, especially because it’s been a long time since I’ve written anything about Oracle. So here is it:
Schema Owners and Application Users
Cheers
Tim…

Posted 25 May 2007 † Tim... § Oracle ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , ,

Is read-only access to production systems safe?

There is an interesting thread on the Dizwell Forum about access to production systems using tools like TOAD. Of course, this begs the question, is there such a thing as “safe” read-only access to production data?
If you are allowing read-only access to tables on a production system, you are also allowing record and table locking. [...]

Posted 28 June 2006 † Tim... § Oracle ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , ,