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Does my Oracle DBA need root access?
My Oracle DBA Colleague is requesting root access on our production servers.
He is arguing that he need it to perform some operations like rebooting the server and some other tasks.
I do not not ...
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Oracle Security Update Patch July 2011 - How to know if i am affected?
Oracle Security Update Patch July 2011
I am using JDK 1.4.2_08, 1.4.2_19, 1.4.2_22, and Oracle DB 9.2.0.8. Can any experts tell me how to tell if i am affected, i.e. after installing the patch ...
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Is there any viable alternative to using Oracle Auditing
I am currently tasked with developing a action plan for monitoring DB activity, encompassing general actions (failed logons etc) with some finer grained monitoring(e.g. who selected from table x, what ...
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What DNSSec implementations are available, and have they been checked for padding Cryptographic Oracle vulnerabilities?
A cryptographic Oracle is where one can deduce the private key when a error condition is created.
Considering the recent ASP.NET padding Oracle exploit, can anyone tell me if the DNSSec ...
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Unknown user name or bad password
I have 2 application hosted on server A which connects to the database server B. For every few seconds, there is this error log in the event viewer of the database sever.
Both window services ...
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Secure communication between Oracle client and server
As per project requirement i need to to secure communication between Oracle server and client. I have oracle version 11g. What are the configuration steps i need to follow in the client and server ...
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Oracle Ordcom and Wallet Coexistence Problem
We use Oracle's ORDCOM infrastructure on our 11.1.0.7 database to interact with a COM object. The COM object doesn't do anything with the database. This process has been working fine for several years....
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How do you use Oracle's tools from scripts?
Most Oracle tools and scripts request that you pass them the password via the command line - where everyone on the same machine can see them. Example:
exp <user>/<password> ...
Is there ...
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Should core system servers be able to connect to the internet for maintenance/support?
A couple of our servers have Oracle maintenance licenses. Our hardware vendor asked there was internet connection in the server room. Our policy is that all machines in that room is isolated from the ...
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Reasons to disable / enable SELinux
In the line of this question on StackOverflow and the completely different crowd we have here, I wonder: what are your reasons to disable SELinux (assuming most people still do)? Would you like to ...
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The wisdom of exposing a database server on the internet?
The leadership of the small company I work for has gotten very excited about SaaS and is pushing our product into a SaaS deployment - I have a concern about this because part of the functionality of ...
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Oracle Database character set issue with the audit tables on Debian
I've got Oracle XE installed on Debian linux and the character set is configured to AL32UTF8.
There are several client applications that connects to a database from Windows with the different locales -...
