There is one night every year I can stay up as long as I can manage without fearing the next day. Because, on that particular day I can sleep as much as I want on the plane, trying to fool my body into GMT-8, better known as PDT or Pacific Daylight Time. Yes, it is Oracle Open World again, in the second nicest city in the world, only beaten by Rio de Janeiro.
Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) reports on many security policies when they are violated. One of them are about execute privileges on standard PL/SQL packages granted to PUBLIC. One a day this summer with nothing better to do I went on to revoke these privileges. The wages for my efforts was several ORA-600 errors:
Recently during restore of a large database (over 10 TB) we monitored the alert log looking for messages like «Full restore complete of datafile 42 to datafile copy … Elapsed time: 0:39:32»
In case you are using the DBMS_LDAP package from a reasonable modern environment you may run into the error:
I struggled to connect to the console of a newly created VM. The VM was created using Oracle VM Manager (OVMM) and despite efforts to install the required packages I could not use the console button in the Manager interface.
Just a simple trick to import ISO files to the repository using Oracle VM Manager (OVMM). The import function supports imports through protocols http, https and ftp. If you want to do this in the supported way you can use a simple web server to serve the ISO files for you.
This post is a mixture of experiences from a recent project and an overview on how to use RAT in a project.
For the second time I have been involved with a proof of concept (PoC) where testing of an alternative hardware platform was the goal. Common for both PoCs were:
Vårens store høydepunkt er OUGN sitt vårseminar. Her er programmet og her kan du melde deg på. Drar du til Oslo for å delta på konferansen anbefaler jeg at du flyr inn dagen før for å bli med på et annet stort høydepunkt, nemlig et dagskurs med Cary Millsap i Oslo.
