Dec 05
In this article, I will show how it is extremely simple to inject a hidden rootkit inside an Oracle database PL/SQL object (like a procedure) making it very hard to detect for almost all DBA’s and Security Admins. It’s important to understand and know how those virus works so we can always be prepared to …
Nov 26
Since 2017 I am quarterly writing a post dissecting the changes implemented by Oracle CPUs so we can understand better the modifications implemented by Oracle in our Databases. To check previous changes, follow the links below: Dissecting 171017 BP, PSU, RU and RUR Dissecting 180116 BP, PSU, RU and RUR Dissecting 180417 BP, PSU, RU …
Oct 29
In the Oracle Open World 2018 event that happened in San Francisco last week, from October 22nd to 25th, much has been said about the trends and strategy paths that Oracle is taking in both OCI and in Oracle Database. As we DBA’s are always excited about the upcoming features, I will share below some …
Oct 11
As of today (October 2018), there is still no internal capability in Oracle Cloud Infrastructure to backup the metadata of all the objects you have (like computes, volumes, network, users, etc). This would be indeed a great feature and prefer to believe that Oracle is working to deploy it. Meanwhile, I have some customers that …
Sep 17
Creating a read-only user for OCI access is useful if you want to give your auditors or external providers only read privileges on all your Infrastructure resources or if you want to run oci-cli tool in a secure mode, with guarantee that no changes will happen in your Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. In this article I …
Rodrigo Jorge
Oracle OCM Database 11g & 12c
Oracle OCM MAA & Cloud
Oracle OCE Data Guard 12c
Oracle OCE RAC and Grid 11gR2 & 12c
Oracle OCE Performance Tuning 11g & 12c
Oracle OCS Security 11g
Oracle OCS Data Warehousing 11g
