September 5, 2013 archive

12c Data Redaction

Oracle 12c’s Advanced Security option now includes Data Redaction. This is a great way to secure your data , transparently to the application, from prying eyes. If an end user does not need the entire tax id, they can be presented with just the last four digits, as an example. To me, this is just …

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ORA-01097

Every once in a while, a person comes across something that has been around forever but is a new experience for them. Just today, I hit the ORA-1097 error for the first time in my career. I was in a test database and needed to shut it down. SQL> shutdown immediate ORA-01097: cannot shutdown while …

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