04 Jun 2019
Lately I was asked to apply the Exadata Quarterly Full Stack Download Patch (QFSDP) of July 2018(Patch 28183368) on the infrastructure components of a virtualized EXADATA X6-2. The objective consists of patching the following components: I found a lot of instructions and examples on how to upgrade the components, but none on how to downgrade… read more
13 May 2019
With any cloud environment, it becomes easy to start a new resource whether it is a database or a compute instance. It is like walking to a giant department store with unlimited credit on your card. Too often we find that somebody has fired a new instance and left it forgotten to run over holidays… read more
02 May 2019
Oracle Identity Cloud Service (IDCS) provides integration with any service that can be integrated via SAML (Security Access Markup Language) protocol. Administrations will be able to manage users into various applications via single control panel and end users will be able to get to applications via single click. IDCS provides support for standard SAML 2.0… read more
18 Apr 2019
Starting with Oracle 11gR2, it is difficult to lose your OCR file or voting disk as they are stored in an ASM disk group with normal or high redundancy. The scenario below will corrupt the header of oracleasm disks that belong to disk group that has an OCR file, a voting disk, and ASM Password… read more
10 Apr 2019
This article introduces the concept of data masking and will provide some key considerations for undertaking a data masking initiative. Most organizations recognize that their current practices of using production data in non-production environments are introducing security risks but they are hesitant to change those practices on the belief that creating reliable and comprehensive test… read more
