Oracle 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...
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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 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...
View ArticleOracle Database 12c New Feature: Last Login Time
As Markus Flechtner has already mentioned in his blog, Oracle has started to record the last login time. It is a small but very useful 12c security feature and operates independently of the database...
View ArticleORA-00600 [kpdbModAdminPasswdInRoot: not CDB] when changing password of...
During the test on Oracle Database 12c I run into an interesting error respectively Chris Antongini has made me aware of it. If you try to change the password of an Oracle default account on a none CDB...
View ArticleUpdate: ORA-00600 [kpdbModAdminPasswdInRoot: not CDB] when changing password...
As discussed in my post ORA-00600 [kpdbModAdminPasswdInRoot: not CDB] when changing password of default account There is an unpublished bug 16901482 which cause an ORA-00600 when trying to set a new...
View ArticleOracle CPU / PSU Pre-Release Announcement October 2013
Oracle has published the Pre-Release Announcement for the October CPU/SPU Patch. This Critical Patch Update contains 126 new security vulnerability fixes for several Oracle products. Despite the large...
View ArticleChanges in database security patching with 12c
During my preparation for the tests of October Critical Patch Updates (CPU), I stumbled over an interesting Oracle Support Document. I this document Oracle announced that there will nolonger be...
View ArticleOracle released CPU / PSU October 2013
As announced yesterday in my post Oracle CPU / PSU Pre-Release Announcement October 2013, Oracle has now released the last Critical Patch Updates for 2013. Overall this CPU contains 126 new security...
View ArticleOracle CPU / PSU Pre-Release Announcement January 2014
Today Oracle has published the Pre-Release Announcement for the first CPU Patch in 2014. This Critical Patch Update contains 147 new security vulnerability fixes for several Oracle products. From the...
View ArticleOracle CPU / PSU Pre-Release Announcement April 2014
Today Oracle has published the Pre-Release Announcement of the CPU Advisory for April 2014. This Critical Patch Update contains 103 new security vulnerability fixes for several Oracle products. There...
View ArticleTrivadis CBO Days 2014
The company I work for, Trivadis, organized again an exceptional event with top speakers in Zurich. This year’s focus will be on the Oracle Database query optimizer, also known as cost-based optimizer...
View ArticleOracle and OpenSSL ‘Heartbleed’ vulnerability
Earlier this week the OpenSSL Project as well US-CERT informed about a Security Vulnerability in OpenSSL. See OpenSSL Security Advisory or US-CERT Alert (TA14-098A) The vulnerability may affect Oracle...
View ArticleOracle released CPU / PSU April 2014
As announced last week in my post Oracle CPU / PSU Pre-Release Announcement April 2014, Oracle has now released the Critical Patch Updates for April 2014. Overall this CPU contains 104 new security...
View ArticleUpdate: Oracle and OpenSSL ‘Heartbleed’ vulnerability
While writing a post about the new Critical Patch Advisory I’ve discovered, that Oracle made the Information about the OpenSSL Vulnerability publicly available. The information in MOS Note 1645479.1...
View ArticleTrivadis PL/SQL & SQL CodeChecker
A couple of days ago Trivadis released the Trivadis PL/SQL & SQL CodeChecker (tvdcc) as SQL Developer Extension. TVDCC does check the editor content for compliance violations of the Trivadis PL/SQL...
View ArticleOracle passwords and special characters
As commonly known passwords should have a certain complexity. Thereby it is common to use special characters, numbers, lower and uppercase characters. Depending on the type of special characters Oracle...
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