The recent OAUG "Automating Compliance Survey" (OAUG login required) showed 7% of the organizations surveyed responded as being compliant with the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standard (DSS), while 19% were in the process of planning or implementing and 71% were either not planning or n

(Bob Watkins) In 10g, Oracle introduced a new kind of storage for its database product. Automatic Storage Management (ASM) is a logical volume manager that takes physical disk partitions and manages their contents in a way that efficiently supports the files needed to create an Oracle database.

(Maria Anderson) there any other way apart from using export/import for migrating the database between different platforms? Export/import is taking more time for TB databases. (R)

(Clint Boulton) One of Oracle’s biggest challenges these days is integrating the new products from its numerous acquisitions with its existing software.

Oracle has certified Oracle 10g (10.2.0.2) Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) with Oracle Applications 11i — TDE is part of the Oracle Advanced Security Option (ASO), which is a database option and is an additional cost.

(Jim Czuprynski) Oracle 10gR2 includes some security features that have been long-overdue: the ability to encrypt DataPump Export dump sets and Recovery Manager (RMAN) backup sets. This article – the fourth and final in this series – discusses and illustrates how any Oracle DBA with a reasonable lev

(Mary Ann Davidson) It occurs to me as I reflect upon my 14-odd years in security at Oracle how mainstream security has become during that time. For example, most well-known security conferences are now dominated by businesspeople instead of security kahunas. I started attending these conferences wh

(Andrew Clarke) Congratulations to Misbah Jalil over at the Oracle Contractors blog who has just heard the news that implicit cursors are more performant than explicit ones. I think rather unfairly he sticks Steven Feuerstein with the blame for the propagation of the idea that explicit cursors were

(Maria Anderson) I have installed the Oracle 10.2.0.3 patch on top of 10.2.0.2 on my Oracle 10g instance. After that when I am trying to log in to Oracle I am kicked out with a ORA-12514 error: “ORA-12514: TNS:listener does not currently know of service requested in connect.” I had narrowed this dow

(Partha S) Quest Code Tester Beta was released last week. As I had pointed out in my last two entries on the tester, I have been having problems getting the Tester to run properly on Oracle 10g XE. The latest beta version 1.5 resolves these issues, and finally I was able to get it to run correctly.