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Oracle is my focus profession and the big kahuna among transactional databases on the market today. This category features in-depth technical posts regarding Oracle, musings, projects, and Oracle related news.

Piggy Bank

The High Price of Data

October 28, 2013 Steve Karam Development, News, Oracle, Technology One comment

You’ve purchased servers, storage space, switches, cables, and countless other pieces of hardware. The Oracle licenses are bought and paid for, Enterprise Edition with a few add-ons. All told, you’ve spent a small fortune on this infrastructure. It’s finally time to start up your database and begin using it for

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8086 Processor

How I Became a DBA

October 8, 2013 Steve Karam Fun, News, Oracle 18 comments

The DBA job title is an interesting one. While everyone can understand “programmer” or “software tester” or even “system administrator”, the DBA role is so misunderstood by both muggles (I’m going to hell for using that word) and colleagues alike. In fact, at this point I’m fairly certain that it

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Oracle OpenWorld 2013

September 27, 2013 Steve Karam News, Oracle 5 comments

I’m back from OpenWorld and my head is still buzzing from the excitement of this week. It has been an absolute whirlwind of information, awesome people, and events. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to attend Sunday’s festivities as I arrived Sunday night. First thing Monday morning I checked in and received

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Alarm Clock

Database 12c Exam Voucher Contest

September 20, 2013 Steve Karam Miscellaneous, News, Oracle One comment

Ready for a Database 12c Beta Exam? Tim Hall–and I’m totally not kissing up here but he is an amazingly benevolent model citizen–is holding a comment contest for a voucher to take the Oracle Database 12c: Installation and Administration (1Z1-062) beta exam for free. The rules are listed out clearly,

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A Good Day

September 18, 2013 Steve Karam Fun, News, Oracle 2 comments

It was a fantastic day for good news. I’ll be honest, I didn’t have high hopes. Yesterday I was minding my own business, driving 55MPH (that’s 88.5KPH for the other 53,720,000 square miles of landmass in the world (that’s 13,913,400,000 hectares or whatever unit of area you all use)) on

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The Adventures of Ace DBA

Daydreams 2 – Rollbacks (Ace Comic)

August 30, 2013 Steve Karam Development, Fun, News, Oracle Leave a comment

At the Council of IT… Related Pay attention Ace! Daydreams #1 Rolling back parameter changes? The Sin of Band-Aids

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The Adventures of Ace DBA

Hostname (Ace Comic)

August 2, 2013 Steve Karam Fun, News, Oracle Leave a comment
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Lying Businessman

Password Verification Security Loophole

July 16, 2013 Steve Karam News, Oracle 6 comments

Leighton Nelson asked an interesting Oracle security question via Twitter yesterday regarding Oracle’s built-in password verification functions and whether or not it can be bypassed by changing the way you create a user: Does updating password via alter user identified by values "<encrypted value>" bypass profile settings in 11.2.03? I

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Oracle 12c Community Content and Visualizations

July 10, 2013 Steve Karam News, Oracle Leave a comment

For the last two weeks since Oracle Database 12c was released, I have been aggregating community content into a list that includes everything from videos to slides to articles. At present there are 190 articles from 83 authors, which is absolutely incredible considering the short time the new version of

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Alarm Clock

How long can I hold off on Oracle 12c?

June 26, 2013 Steve Karam News, Oracle 13 comments

It’s that time again. Oracle 12c is out and many of us are forming various plans on what we’re going to do with it. I’ve found that most thoughts around this are one of: I’m going to blog until my fingers bleed. I really wish I could just upgrade production

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