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Unplug/Plug PDB in TDE Environment

By Mouhamadou Diaw In an oracle environment with Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) the transfer of PDB may require additional steps. In this blog we will see some steps which may be required when doing Unplug and Plug  of pluggable(…)

SHELL SCRIPTING: improve DBA scripts readability using J2 templates

Quering database's by using SQL in shell scripts can make the whole script unreadable. Very oftent the query is unredable too, due to the variable usage. This situation make the script debugging a pain. Templating simplify the script by taking(…)

Oracle TDE part II : Encrypting Data

By Mouhamadou Diaw In the first part of this blog, we activate TDE in the database, in this part we will see how we can encrypt data. I am using Oracle 19c for the tests As specified before TDE(…)

Oracle TDE part I : Configuring the Encryption

By Mouhamadou Diaw Oracle gives us some tools to secure our data in transit and in rest. Oracle Transparent Data Encryption will allow us to encrypt data in rest. Oracle TDE need The Oracle Advanced Security License Oracle TDE(…)

The Option -applyRU of runInstaller

By Mouhamadou Diaw RU, MRP should be applied to database home as soon as possible. Usually we often nstall the base version and after install the RU on top on the base version For example we want to have(…)

Oracle 21c Gradual Password Rollover : Tracking old password usage

By Mouhamadou Diaw In a previous blog, I talked about the new feature in Oracle 21c, which allows an old and new password to be valid during a period of time. This feature, Gradual Database(…)

Migrating Non-CDB to Multitenant

By Mouhamadou Diaw Dealing these last days to database migration with a customer, I write this blog to describe the main tasks The context is to migrate databases to a new infrastructure. Below the configuration Source : Linux Suse(…)

Migration with Data Guard: Oracle on Windows AWS to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI)

Oracle offers a number of methods to migrate Oracle databases to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). From Data Pump through RMAN, Data Guard and even Golden Gate there should be a solution for just about everyone. However, most of these(…)

A generic jdbc tester (part II)

A generic utility to test JDBC connections to any RDBMS or no SQL data source whose JDBC drivers are provided. Oracle OCI, MariaDB and SQLite.

A quick repository creation utility (part V)

How to create a documentum repository in under a minute. Timings, management functions and conclusion(…)