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  Database Journal: Oracle Database Administration News, Articles, Scripts, Tutorials, Forums, And Resources for the ...
Database Journal: Oracle Database Administration News, Articles, Scripts, Tutorials, Forums, And Resources for the Oracle Database Professional.
View this Microsoft Webcast, which addresses the unique aspects of security from the perspective of the server, the database, and database objects.
This article delves into a new Oracle Database 11g feature that significantly extends this powerful 10g feature by providing the ability to implement improved execution plans automatically within DBA-specified boundaries.
www.databasejournal.com /features/oracle   (640 words)

  
 Oracle Certification Program: Oracle 10g Certification Paths   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Oracle Database 10g OCA is the first step in the Oracle Database 10g certification track and is the first step in building a successful career as an Oracle professional.
Oracle Database 10g DBA OCAs have proven competency in foundational skills required to manage important database administration and configuration functions.
The Oracle Database 10g OCP is a credential for serious database professionals who have the skills to implement and manage complex Oracle Database 10g functions and the know-how to keep the database running at maximum efficiency.
education.oracle.com /pls/web_prod-plq-dad/db_pages.getpage?page_id=47   (610 words)

  
 easy clone/copy of oracle database
A database cloning procedure is especially useful for the DBA who wants to give his developers a full-sized TEST and DEV instance by cloning the PROD instance into the development server areas.
It clones the Oracle database and this Oracle cloning procedures is often the fastest way to copy a Oracle database.
Oracle technology is changing and we strive to update our BC Oracle support information.
www.dba-oracle.com /oracle_tips_db_copy.htm   (455 words)

  
 Introduction to Simple Oracle Auditing   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Database triggers need to be written to capture changes at the column and row level.
Every time a user attempts anything in the database where audit is enabled the Oracle kernel checks to see if an audit record should be created or updated (in the case or a session record) and generates the record in a table owned by the SYS user called AUD$.
Because it is possible to audit almost any type of action in an Oracle database using the standard audit features, the reader should experiment with the most useful audit actions for their organization.
www.securityfocus.com /infocus/1689   (3826 words)

  
 Pythian Remote DBA: Outsourcing Oracle, SQL and MySQL Database Administration
Experts at getting fine-tuned performance out of the Oracle database symphony, Pythian provides its clients with an unrivaled level of DBA proficiency, sophisticated Oracle monitoring and reporting, and 24/7/365 service.
Pythian’s team of international database experts is at least 20% more efficient than an in-house DBA.
Pythian's Management Reports enable you to track Pythian's Oracle DBA efforts by business application, by profit center, by server, or by technical category.
www.pythian.com   (177 words)

  
 Oracle Database Management - Oracle Database Tools - Quest Software
Quest Central® for Oracle is a comprehensive data management workbench that enables DBAs to manage more databases from a single, integrated interface.
SharePlex for Oracle provides fault-tolerant, streaming replication for the Oracle database, allowing you to maintain a near-real time copy of your database for reporting and migrations.
InTrust for Databases is a database audit management product that ensures all corporate database assets remain secure through real-time, detailed notification of critical events such as intrusion detection, data theft and data fraud.
www.quest.com /oracle   (827 words)

  
 Discussion Forums:Database   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Oracle Content DB provides unmatched scalability, security, and availability for managing unstructured content in the Oracle Database.
Expression Filter is a feature of Oracle Database that allows application developers to store, index, and evaluate conditional expressions (“expressions”) in one or more columns of a relational table to describe interest in some expected data.
Oracle XML DB is feature of Oracle Database 9i Release 2 and later.
forums.oracle.com /forums/category.jspa?categoryID=18   (391 words)

  
 SQL Injection and Oracle, Part One   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Oracle is a huge product and SQL injection can be applied to many of its modules, languages and APIs, so this paper is intended to be an overview or introduction to the subject.
This two-part series is not intended as a detailed treatise of how to SQL inject an Oracle database, nor is it intended as a detailed discussion on the finer points of the technique in general.
To steal data from a database from which the data should not normally be available, or to obtain system configuration data that would allow an attack profile to be built.
www.securityfocus.com /infocus/1644   (3052 words)

  
 Oracle Database Tuning
Oracle keeps statistics for these latches in v$latch, including the number of gets and misses for the Redo Allocation Latch and the number of immediate gets and immediate misses for the Redo Copy Latches, which are cumulative values since instance startup.
The Database Buffer Cache is part of the Shared Global Area (SGA) in memory for a single database instance (SID) and holds the blocks of data and indexes that you and everyone else is currently using.
Oracle determines how many Additional Cache Hits (ACH) would occur for each query and transaction for each of the 1000 buffer increments (or whatever other maximum value you might want to try out), and places them into the x$kcbrbh table, which is only accessable from user "sys".
www.uaex.edu /srea/tuning.htm   (1862 words)

  
 Oracle FAQ: Oracle Database Administration
Oracle recommends that your database block size match, or be multiples of your operating system block size.
Oracle doesn't round it up to the multiple of 5 when a tablespace is locally managed.
On systems prior to Oracle 8i, write a job to copy archived redo log files from the primary database to the standby system, and apply the redo log files to the standby database (pipe it).
www.orafaq.com /faqdba.htm   (1555 words)

  
 Oracle to offer free database | Tech News on ZDNet
Oracle intends to release a free version of its database, a reaction to the growing competitive pressure from low-end open-source databases.
The database heavyweight on Tuesday is expected to announce the beta release of Oracle 10g Express Edition (Oracle Database XE), which will be generally available by the end of the year.
Open-source databases have caught on steadily in popularity over the past few years with corporate customers and Web developers.
news.zdnet.com /2100-3513_22-5920796.html   (866 words)

  
 Oracle Databases and Applications Solutions
Oracle OpenWorld: Michael Dell Presents "Driving Standards - Desktop to Datacenter"
Documents the preparation and installation of the Dell Oracle Database Solution, including hardware and software requirements, installation and configuration.
Complete parts list for the Dell solution for Oracle Database, documenting the specifics of the hardware, firmware and software included in the configuration.
www.dell.com /oracle   (565 words)

  
 Oracle Database Benchmark
Contain some security configuration recommendations that affect functionality, and are therefore of greatest value to system administrators who have sufficient security knowledge to apply them with consideration to the functions and applications running in their particular environments.
The CIS Level 1 and 2 Oracle 8i Databases and 9i/10g Benchmarks are updated periodically.
If your organization is not a member of the Center, visit this website periodically to assure that you are using the latest version of the Oracle 8i Databases and Oracle 9i/10g Databases Benchmarks.
www.cisecurity.org /bench_oracle.html   (497 words)

  
 oreilly.com -- Online Catalog: Oracle Database Administration: The Essential Refe
Oracle database administration requires a vast amount of information and an ability to perform a myriad of tasks--from installation to tuning to network troubleshooting to overall daily administration.
Oracle provides many tools for performing these tasks; the trick is knowing what tool is right for the job, what commands you need to issue (and when), and what parameters and privileges you need to set.
Oracle Database Administration is the single essential reference you'll turn to again and again.
www.oreilly.com /catalog/oradba   (1430 words)

  
 Oracle FAQ: Oracle Backup and Recovery
Oracle exports are "logical" database backups (not physical) as they extract data and logical definitions from the database into a file.
Oracle will stop updating file headers, but will continue to write data to the database files even if a tablespace is in backup mode.
If a database was terminated while one of its tablespaces was in BACKUP MODE (ALTER TABLESPACE xyz BEGIN BACKUP;), it will tell you that media recovery is required when you try to restart the database.
www.orafaq.com /faqdbabr.htm   (2302 words)

  
 Oracle Database Design
Oracle 10g: Putting Grids to Work (Oracle)- This white paper will discuss Grid Computing as the next phase of computing architectures, IDC's model of distributed computing software, called the virtual environment and how it is implemented in the form of Grid Computing.
Follow along as he builds a working Oracle encyclopedia, sharing his knowledge and experiences, removing the mystery surrounding Oracle technology, and describing ways to integrate that technology in various projects and business areas.
The Field Expansion Approach (ITtoolbox Oracle Knowledge Base)- An activity often taken up, to ensure the continuity of businesses, is increasing the length of database fields and modifying the application to accommodate them.
oracle.ittoolbox.com /topics/t.asp?t=391&p=391&h1=391   (1009 words)

  
 Oracle Database Replication Software | SQL Database Recovery | Database Synchronization   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Database design and management is an ever-changing field--it's critical to have up-to-date tools and information.
If you're looking for database articles discussing Oracle database replication software, SQL database recovery options, or database synchronization techniques, Developers.net is the place to look.
One such strategy rests on Oracle's solution for server consolidation, which in turn is based on Oracle Real Application Clusters technology.
www.developers.net /all_content/Focus/Database   (1214 words)

  
 CBT Nuggets: Oracle 9i/10g OCA Series
The Oracle OCA Series teaches you the fundamentals of running and managing an Oracle 9i or 10g database, plus prepares you for the Oracle Certified Associate (OCA) exam.
If you're new to Oracle, this is just the start you need to dive in and start working in Oracle.
OCA is industry-recognized as a great way to add basic Oracle DBA skills to your resume, and is required for advanced Oracle certification.
www.cbtnuggets.com /gooracle?url=/webapp/product?id=339   (448 words)

  
 Steve Rea's Oracle and SunGard SCT Banner Tips, Tricks, and Scripts
Oracle has come out with a new ID utility ("nid") in Oracle 9i to change the internal database ID. So, you can do datafile copy cloning while also using RMAN and other utilities on the cloned copy that depend on unique ID's for the databases.
Oracle has also provided another method which pads the command line to sqlplus (or any other executable) with just enough blanks to fool the unix ps command into not displaying the actual command line.
Generates SQL to create a database using the current database as a model, including all of it's logfiles and logfile groups, system datafiles, all tablespaces and their datafiles and default storage settings, and all rollback segments, along with running the Oracle catalog procedures.
www.uaex.edu /srea   (11016 words)

  
 Oracle announces Database 11g beta | Tech News on ZDNet
Database 11g beta includes 482 new features designed to address a range of database issues, from the need to retain more information to data compression to the handling of parallel upgrades, said Chuck Rozwat, executive vice president of Oracle server technologies, during his keynote speech here at the Oracle OpenWorld conference.
Oracle, which faces competition from open-source database technologies, has been dabbling in them itself.
Oracle's placement in the Leader's Quadrant comes on the heels of the general availability of Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition 10g Release 3.
news.zdnet.com /2100-3513_22-6128702.html   (711 words)

  
 Oracle database reviews / Oracle Database
Urgent requirement for Oracle ESB Designer and Developer at Irvine, CA - 2006-07-20 13:28
Re: Problem to arrange a compress on the fly to an export - 2006-07-19 13:21
Upgrading oracle db 10.1.0.5 to 10.2.0.2 java issues - 2006-07-18 13:56
www.cisco-cert.com /Oracle_Database   (207 words)

  
 Installing Oracle 10g R1,R2 on RHEL 4, 3, 2.1, FC 4, 3, 1, RH 9 (x86 and x86-64 (AMD64/EM64T) - Oracle10g Installation ...
Oracle says that the system must have at least 512MB of RAM and 1GB of swap space or twice the size of RAM.
For test sake I tried to install an Oracle Database 10g (Type: General Purpose Database) on a little PC with 256MB of RAM and 1 GB of swap space.
Oracle says that about 2.5 GB of disk space should be reserved for the Oracle software on Linux.
www.puschitz.com /InstallingOracle10g.shtml   (6058 words)

  
 TUSC - Oracle Database Services, Troubleshooting, Support
TUSC's Oracle Database and DBA Services can assist you whether you're implementing the latest in technology or proven technology that is simply new to your company's environment.
Database and application migrations are best handled by experts on the platform being "migrated to." Whether companies are dealing with inherited systems (through mergers or acquisitions), old legacy systems or a consolidation of multiple platforms, they often do not have the skilled resources available to properly architect a new environment.
TUSC brings those skills to the table -- not only with Oracle Database expertise, but also with working knowledge of many of the most common source database and file systems.
www.tusc.com /oracle_database.html   (468 words)

  
 Apple - Server - Oracle 10g on Mac OS X
affordable and easy-to-manage enterprise database platform that is ideal for developing and deploying grid computing solutions.
Here are major reasons to develop and deploy Oracle Database 10g on Mac OS X Server.
As highlighted in Oracle’s Resilient Low-Cost Storage Initiative, Apple’s Xserve RAID provides massive storage capacity in a rack-optimized enclosure.
www.apple.com /server/resources/oracle   (832 words)

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