security – Learning is not a spectator sport

UTL_HTTP, secure hosts and ORA-24263 certificate errors

Security eh? It is just one of those little things that is good to have in a database. The “problem”

‘Twas the week before Christmas, and all through the world, Many developers were stirring, as a nightmare unfurled. The log4j

With the new release of every product from every software vendor, there are always the big banner headline features that

Slow down there….Take a breath. Because if you’ve read the title of this post and you’re already logging on to

As I write this, the moment you do a browser search for “blockchain”, the last thing you will get a

TL;DR: There is no schema grant command in Oracle, but this routine lets you get close. Why no schema level

In the language of the millennials I should start this post with “TIL”, but for the rest of us out

If you cannot wait for a fully autonomous offering, and you’ve jumped into the 20c preview release on Oracle Cloud,

I had a request from a client a while back regarding masking of data. They had an application with sensitive

Wow…it is nearly 4 years ago now that I wrote an article on connecting to the database via a wallet