Today I did have my first presentation at the UKOUG TechFest 2019 in Brighton. Looking back it was a great day with many interesting lectures and good conversations with colleagues and partners. After a long and exhausting day I’ll take a few minutes to sum up my presentation about the PDB isolation and Security. When […]
Recently I came across the situation where I have to configure Enterpriser User Security for a database server with multiple databases for different directories. This is quite tricky when using a shared Oracle Home and a central TNS_ADMIN directory for SQLNet configuration. A common TNS_ADMIN also implies the use of only one ldap.ora file. Several […]
If you’ve landed here, you’ve probably followed one of my tweets with the URL url.oradba.ch/30hnNDL. I did use the MarsEdit functionality to download and update the side template. MarsEdit creates a new posts, which will be deleted immediately. The problem is when new posts are automatically published directly on twitter. Of course, the tweet is […]
A crucial aspect of any database audit concept is the management and maintenance of audit trails. Depending on the defined audit policies and the database activity, an audit trail can grow relatively quickly. Oracle Multitenant environments increase the operational effort because the root container and each PDB uses their own audit trail. Ok, for a […]
I am looking forward to a busy second half of 2019. I will be represented with my lectures at various conferences and events. Enclosed a short overview, at which events I will participate: SOUG Day August 2019 Baden August 27th 2019 Trivadis TechEvent 2019 Regensdorf, September 12th + 13th 2019 DOAG Security Day Hamburg, October […]
Recently, just in the middle of the summer holidays, Oracle has released the third Critical Patch Advisory for its products. It seems there’s a lot of work going on in Redwood Shore. Oracle has fixed about 319 security vulnerabilities across their products. The Oracle database is relatively prominently represented with 9 security vulnerabilities and a […]
Due to a tip from a work colleague, I came across a changed behaviour of the latest SQL Developer release. It affects the connection type LDAP respectively the use of an LDAP directory for the database name resolution. After specifying one or more LDAP servers it should actually be possible to select the corresponding context […]
As part of a customer project I am currently enhancing PDB security and isolation. Since OS interaction is necessary, I can not just use lockdown profile to block OS access. The idea is to isolate the PDB with lockdown profiles and allow dedicated OS access. The idea is to isolate the PDB with lockdown profiles […]
Today I did have the opportunity to give a presentation on Oracle Database in Docker at the SOUG day in Olten. It was a great opportunity to discuss how Oracle database engineering can be simplified using Docker. Besides the demo the following topics were discussed: Docker images, container and volumes Requirements to setup Oracle database […]
With the introduction of Oracle 18c, eusm is officially designated as an Enterprise User Security Utility. It is now officially documented of the Enterprise User Security Administrator’s Guide. Before we had to be content with the somewhat sparse MOS note 1085065.1 EUSM, Command Line Tool For EUS Administration and Some EUS Good to Knows. In […]
Recently I’ve update the java installation of my Oracle Unified Directory (OUD) 12.2.1.0.3 to the latest release. Java 1.8.0 update 202 to be exact (p28916775_180202_Linux-x86-64.zip). Actually a piece of cake, I’ve done this a few times in the past. My Enterprise User Security (EUS) test environment is running in Docker. A container for the database […]
Mid June I wrote an article for the DOAG Red Stack magazin about my work on Oracle Unified Directory in Docker. Just about the same time I did my DOAG SIG Security presentation on the same topic. In the meantime the article has been published in the latest release of the DOAG Red Stack magazin. […]