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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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Clockwork

Oracle Database 12c (12.1) Installation and New Features

June 25, 2013 Steve Karam News, Oracle 13 comments

Getting Started with Oracle Database 12c (RDBMS) Oracle-Base Installation Guide by Tim Hall RAC Laptop Install Presentation by Yury Velikanov Official Oracle Links The Oracle 12c Learning Library (Tutorials) New Database Editions Matrix SQL Developer and Oracle 12c Oracle VM Templates for Database 12c Oracle 12c Interactive Poster Oracle 12c

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Archives

Running in the Background

June 17, 2013 Steve Karam News, Oracle 2 comments

We all have that list of features we just wish Oracle would adopt in their latest version: alterable redo log files, command history in SQL*Plus, DBA_OOPS package with various rollback options when you screw something up… One of my biggest wishlist items is detachable sessions. In Oracle 10g we got

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The Adventures of Ace DBA

Genesis (Ace Comic)

May 24, 2013 Steve Karam Development, Fun, News, Oracle 2 comments

The magic of creation… Related It was probably a database problem: Changes (Ace Comic) Avoiding Armageddon: High Performance Tuning Tools

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Performance Tuning

High Performance Tuning Tools

May 21, 2013 Steve Karam Development, News, Oracle 2 comments

Obligatory Melodrama No matter how much time goes by I still remember it. The day my database was crippled beyond reckoning. That moment when I saw my hopes for a bright and shining future with my database spill through my fingers like so many cracker crumbs falling on a clean

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The Adventures of Ace DBA

Changes (Ace Comic)

May 10, 2013 Steve Karam Fun, Oracle, Technology One comment

It’s the only explanation! Related Ace has dealt with problems before… Default blame accepter?

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Gamification

Gamifying the DBA Experience

May 1, 2013 Steve Karam Development, Fun, News, Oracle 5 comments

All work and no play makes us dull DBAs. Being a DBA can be a really thankless job. From Jr. Shutdown Immediaters to Sr. Rockstar Oracle DBA ACE OCM PMP LOL A+ BBQs, we’ve all trudged into work at some point in our careers only to find that we have

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The Adventures of Ace DBA

Industry Leader (Ace Comic)

April 26, 2013 Steve Karam Fun, News, Oracle Leave a comment

More Friday fun from the World’s Leading DBA Comic! Related: Metrics That Matter: These Aren’t the Metrics You’re Looking For Improve Your Experience: DBA, Grow Thyself – Moving and Shaking in the Era of Data Dominance

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