The Triora Group

One of our clients asked if they really need to use a password entry in the listener.ora file in their production environment. They pointed out that in MetaLink Note: 260986.1, Oracle states: “In Oracle 10, the TNS Listener is secure out of the box and there should not be a need [...]

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Yesterday as I was walking my dogs, I spotted a little bit of “little boy heaven”: two slugs – really big slugs – slithering on my hillside. I did the only thing a reallly cool Mommy could do under the circumstances – I ran back to the house and dragged my son out of bed, made [...]

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In March 07, Oracle released the Applications Management Pack (AMP) for Enterprise Manager. One of the interesting features about the AMP is that it provides the ability to do data masking when cloning data from a production environment to a secondary environment where testing is done. This data masking ensures that confidential information [...]

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For years companies have had to guess whether their DBA’s were avoiding the temptation to run a few SELECTS on confidential financial information. After all, who doesn’t occasionally wonder what their manager is making?
And I’ve seen at least one case where it happened deep in the heart of Texas. [...]

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